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Technology-Based Social Change

Posted by Zonk on from the bits-and-silicon-for-the-people dept.

vivekg writes "BBC has published an article featuring the highlights of technological social change from around the world for this year. It is amazing to find out how technology is being used in very different ways for very different communities. Victims of the Tsunami disaster, Virtual Wallets in Japan, and the Indian government, bringing technology to rural areas, all have been touched by the positive use of technology. Hope to see more good community-based collaboration in 2006."

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  1. Article hopelessly incomplete by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Says absolutely nothing about porn

  2. The evils of Cell Phone use by timpintsch · · Score: 3, Funny

    I used to rail against the evils of cell phone use, from 1998 to present as I worked at various ISPs and ISP like entities, everyone around me was showing up with new pretty cell phones that lit up pretty colors and played deceptively good midi ringtones. Constantly these phones were getting smaller, thinner, and louder. And now, I have one. I can blame marriage, I can blame my wife, I can even blame my stepchild. But at the end of the day, it was the hamster dance in Midi that finally sold me.

  3. Just a question. by Asakusa · · Score: 2, Funny

    But how come they don't have photos of any cute girl gamers?

    Is this because they don't exist? And I almost got my hopes up.

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    The prisoner of hope is sustained and encouraged by his hope, even as he is confined by it.
  4. Ugh. by Golias · · Score: 2, Funny

    Victims of the Tsunami disaster, Virtual Wallets in Japan, and the Indian government, bringing technology to rural areas, all have been touched by the positive use of technology.

    Obviously grammar-checking is one area where technology still lags.

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    Information wants to be anthropomorphized.