Comments on: Bruce Sterling on Cellphones http://www.spideysenses.com/2006/09/26/bruce-sterling-on-cellphones/ Ted Rheingold's web journal Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:23:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Greg Clayman http://www.spideysenses.com/2006/09/26/bruce-sterling-on-cellphones/comment-page-1/#comment-5142 Greg Clayman Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:39:18 +0000 http://www.spideysenses.com/2006/09/26/bruce-sterling-on-cellphones/#comment-5142 Great quote from Sterling and he is bang-on; and the industry is racing to get to those markets as fast as they can. Mobile phones are the closest things to computers that many people in underdeveloped nations have access to and, to your point, they don't need to be able to read or write to use them or to have phone change their lives in significant ways. Just wrote more about this <a href="http://twofones.typepad.com/twofones/2006/09/hows_the_cow.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Great quote from Sterling and he is bang-on; and the industry is racing to get to those markets as fast as they can. Mobile phones are the closest things to computers that many people in underdeveloped nations have access to and, to your point, they don’t need to be able to read or write to use them or to have phone change their lives in significant ways. Just wrote more about this here.

]]> By: twofones http://www.spideysenses.com/2006/09/26/bruce-sterling-on-cellphones/comment-page-1/#comment-5141 twofones Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:14:00 +0000 http://www.spideysenses.com/2006/09/26/bruce-sterling-on-cellphones/#comment-5141 <strong>How's The Cow?...</strong> Ted Rheingold returns from seeing Bruce Sterling speak in San Francisco and points out a comment by Sterling which he finds particularly interesting: Cell phones are booming biggest in countries where large portions of the populations are still illiter... How’s The Cow?…

Ted Rheingold returns from seeing Bruce Sterling speak in San Francisco and points out a comment by Sterling which he finds particularly interesting: Cell phones are booming biggest in countries where large portions of the populations are still illiter…

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