Third World Nations

[JohnR7]

They say that 1 % of the world has a computer, or that 15% of the world has 85% of the wealth. So I wonder, just how fast is technology finding it's way out to the whole world?

My wife grew up in the Philippines in a area that they were able to get some land to grow their food. They were seperated from the nearest town by a river and when she was growing up, there was no bridge. So they had to rent a little boat like a taxi to get across the river. Or she can tell you some stories about riding a carabao across the river. Exp. when he decided to take a bath half was across and she would get soaking wet.

Now, if you go to visit her little area, you will find irrigation ditches and a modern bridge going across that river. All day long are trucks hauling their produce to the airport and a lot of it finds its way to us over here. So I know the modern world is catching up with them.

If you go to India, it is still pretty backwards. Do you think the technology we enjoy is going to find it's way to all of the world, eventually?

 

[lithium.]

Originally posted by JohnR7
They say that 1 % of the world has a computer, or that 15% of the world has 85% of the wealth. So I wonder, just how fast is technology finding it's way out to the whole world?

My wife grew up in the Philippines in a area that they were able to get some land to grow their food. They were seperated from the nearest town by a river and when she was growing up, there was no bridge. So they had to rent a little boat like a taxi to get across the river. Or she can tell you some stories about riding a carabao across the river. Exp. when he decided to take a bath half was across and she would get soaking wet.

Now, if you go to visit her little area, you will find irrigation ditches and a modern bridge going across that river. All day long are trucks hauling their produce to the airport and a lot of it finds its way to us over here. So I know the modern world is catching up with them.

If you go to India, it is still pretty backwards. Do you think the technology we enjoy is going to find it's way to all of the world, eventually?

I think in about 5 or 10 years from now almost everyone in the world will have an computer. The reason I say this is that the cpu's are getting cheaper and cheaper and in about 20 years they will be really cheap cause that is when the processer power will get to a end and can't get any faster. That is when quantum computers will be here and will change everything we know.

And I believe microsoft gets alot of there programers from India so it's not so much backward as you think.

I might have got off topic or did it?

 

[arab4christ]

Originally posted by JohnR7
Do you think the technology we enjoy is going to find it's way to all of the world, eventually?

Yes, Anti Christ

Nice question God bless

a4c