Unwiring The World
For the first time your location no longer limits your
ability to communicate. From anywhere in the world --- mountain,
jungle, or city --- you can now telephone, email, and Web
browse using a pocket-sized, battery-powered wireless communicator
whose components cost only a few dozen dollars.
For less than the typical IMF bailout we can now unwire
the world, making available first-class educational material,
medical advice, business communications, and the arts to
every family on earth by use of wireless communications
technology.
Unwiring the world can have a huge impact, because it
directly addresses the problems of health, educational,
economic, and cultural opportunity. The most certain method
of enhancing people's well being and cutting pollution has
always been to increase educational opportunity. The most
certain method of promoting peace and prosperity has always
been to increase economic and cultural participation. Moreover
unwiring --- unlike wired technology ---tends to level differences
between rich and poor, because it works as well in remote
regions as in modern cities, and is cheap enough to be spread
everywhere.
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