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Negroponte vs. Intel
June 10, 2007
From my latest commentary on the Financial Times digital business podcast:
You’d think that closing the digital divide – finding ways to give the world’s poor better access to computers and the internet – would be a cause that would bring people together, that it would foster some fellow-feeling even among the movers and shakers of the cut-throat technology business. But it’s not quite that simple. For the computer industry, the third world isn’t just a place for philanthropy. It represents a vast and potentially very lucrative new market. As the developed world becomes saturated with computers and software, developing countries offer millions, if not billions, of as yet unserved consumers ...
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