how fucking ironic
Michael Dertouzos wrote an interesting-looking piece for MIT’s technology review with the compelling subhead, Computers threaten to widen the gap between the rich and poor. It’s in everyone’s interest to narrow it. great. good point. he even goes on to make the incisive statement
Some experts, including Bill Gates, argue that the new technologies will help the poor become literate, learn how to plant new crops, take care of their health and sell their services over an expanding information marketplace. His view is consistent with my own, subject to one big “if”: The poor could have a chance of reaping these benefits, if they were somehow provided with the communications systems, hardware, software and training needed to join the club. Absent such help, they can’t even get started.
yet, and this is just so wrong, that’s all you get unless you shell out $4.50 to buy the article or even more than 3 times that to subscribe. this kind of crap that the MIT TR is pulling is exactly what Dertouzos goes after in his piece. can we say duh?! tell the TR whatcha think of that.
