Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 29, 2007 10:59 AM
I'm posted to China since 2001. My work takes me around China and India, and to some places in Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand at times.
You wrote:
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.
I don't think so. No matter how much industrialization happens, China and India are primarily agrarian in nature, as are Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. If you are looking at England or US style industrialization, it is not going to happen in these countries. It will happen in some other way, but you're not going to see a US-style Laos any time, not now, not in 200 years, unless they discover huge Uranium or Plutonium deposits there.
I suggest you go out there and interact with the people, the farmers, the villagers. If you truly understand what they want, it is not technology. They are simple folk, who want better lives. Public sanitation, power, and housing projects are most often delayed by years due to corruption, nepotism, bureaucracy and other political reasons. I work with some NGO's here in China dealing with these issues. The OLPC/Classmate may be moderately successful in some towns, but to most, it will be a curiosity.
I have a lot more to say but this is not the place. Peace.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 29, 2007 10:59 AMYou wrote:
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.
I don't think so. No matter how much industrialization happens, China and India are primarily agrarian in nature, as are Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Cambodia. If you are looking at England or US style industrialization, it is not going to happen in these countries. It will happen in some other way, but you're not going to see a US-style Laos any time, not now, not in 200 years, unless they discover huge Uranium or Plutonium deposits there.
I suggest you go out there and interact with the people, the farmers, the villagers. If you truly understand what they want, it is not technology. They are simple folk, who want better lives. Public sanitation, power, and housing projects are most often delayed by years due to corruption, nepotism, bureaucracy and other political reasons. I work with some NGO's here in China dealing with these issues. The OLPC/Classmate may be moderately successful in some towns, but to most, it will be a curiosity.
I have a lot more to say but this is not the place. Peace.
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