I howled in joy after reading the article. Why you may ask, because computers have become the great equalizer. The only thing you need is a computer and kazaa and you can learn and accomplish anything you want... digitally of course. 10 years ago you couldn't be a poor kid from the ghetto and produce a full length feature film from your junk PC using software and tutorials you downloaded from the internet. Maybe I should say computers and the internet are the great equalizer.
Coming from a financially underprivileged family this just makes me howl in joy.
Anybody read Kim Stanley Robinson's series 'Red Mars', 'Green Mars' and 'Blue Mars'? It is quite an extraordinary representation of what the colonization of mars might be. Definately worth the read.
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I howled in joy after reading the article. Why you may ask, because computers have become the great equalizer. The only thing you need is a computer and kazaa and you can learn and accomplish anything you want... digitally of course. 10 years ago you couldn't be a poor kid from the ghetto and produce a full length feature film from your junk PC using software and tutorials you downloaded from the internet. Maybe I should say computers and the internet are the great equalizer.
Coming from a financially underprivileged family this just makes me howl in joy.
Anybody read Kim Stanley Robinson's series 'Red Mars', 'Green Mars' and 'Blue Mars'? It is quite an extraordinary representation of what the colonization of mars might be. Definately worth the read.