One of the biggest problems for african farmers are not droughts, but the fact that subsidised American rice/wheat is dumped almost for free, driving all local farmers out of business. On top of this cippling, protectionist taxes are charged on anything the third world tries to export to the first.
Although the simputer may not have turned out as well as hoped, it is a good first step to freeing the third world from tech designed for the first world. With this tech and its progeny the people of the third world may be able to FREE THEMSELVES from the shackles of poverty, without any more "charity".
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Joe Public buys an 80GB Hard drive and takes it home. When Windows Explorer opens, it tells him he has 74 odd GB of space.
Was he misled?
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One of the biggest problems for african farmers are not droughts, but the fact that subsidised American rice/wheat is dumped almost for free, driving all local farmers out of business. On top of this cippling, protectionist taxes are charged on anything the third world tries to export to the first.
Although the simputer may not have turned out as well as hoped, it is a good first step to freeing the third world from tech designed for the first world. With this tech and its progeny the people of the third world may be able to FREE THEMSELVES from the shackles of poverty, without any more "charity".