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How Some Developing Countries Are 'Leapfrogging' to Cutting-Edge Technology |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / FEATURE |
| Author: Jamais Cascio |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 3,232 Words, 21,541 Characters |
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The conventional wisdom about the future of the developing world suggests two possible outcomes. The first scenario is that many of the problems developing nations face are too deeply entrenched and widespread to be readily solvable, and that the best these areas can hope for is a muddled and slight improvement. The second, more hopeful, story is that the proper application of financial support, material aid, and enlightened policies from the West will give a hand-up to the poorer countries, helping them reach a level of production and affluence sufficient to meet the UN Millennium Development Goals for their citizens.
I'd like to offer a third scenario.
The future of many developing world countries, in this third alternative, is to be the home to technologies, sciences, and practice...
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...tale and obsolete. At the same time, technologies that have unrealized promise when implemented in the West may be utterly transformative in locations not laden down with legacies of past development. The future belongs to those best able to change along with it. Sometimes, starting from nothing can be a catalyst for just that sort of change.
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