Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 25, 2007 04:29 PM
In the real world, a place you appear not to live in, the Third World is RAPIDLY industrializing. If a kid lives to grow up, his future is most likely going to be in one of the Third World cities in hypergrowth mode because for one reason or another, being a peasant farmer isn't going to be an option anymore.
If you'd stayed awake in history, you might remember the Industrial Revolution in England as an example of that kind of thing.
The ticket out of the new slums is going to be knowing something about technology. While the user probably won't grow up to be a programmer, if that person is going to have a chance at higher education or a multimational job, that person had better know computers and the Net.
Actually, I think you know all this and your real concern is that one of those peasant kids you care so much for will be taking your job away from you. While I've publically called for government controls on offshoring... in your case, I'm willing to make an exception.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 25, 2007 04:29 PMIf you'd stayed awake in history, you might remember the Industrial Revolution in England as an example of that kind of thing.
The ticket out of the new slums is going to be knowing something about technology. While the user probably won't grow up to be a programmer, if that person is going to have a chance at higher education or a multimational job, that person had better know computers and the Net.
Actually, I think you know all this and your real concern is that one of those peasant kids you care so much for will be taking your job away from you. While I've publically called for government controls on offshoring... in your case, I'm willing to make an exception.
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