Saturday, August 25, 2012
Comment about chapter 8
The 1kg.org site connects travelers to China with schools that have no technology and need physical educational materials. It is a collaboration of people with and without technology. Andrew Yu, the founder of 1kg, "realized that we assume poor people are not happy people" (page 256 in the paperback). I think we assume that a low standard of living is a bad thing and a lack of technology is a bad thing. This section reminded me of a presentation I went to by some teens who had gone to work in a village in South America. The people in the village had a "low standard of living". Yet every evening the villagers gathered in the village square to talk and play games. I think there is a richness to that which those of us with a higher standard of living and more technology have lost. It could be argued I suppose that the "village square" experience is happening electronically. For me the electronic village square does not seem as relaxing or comparable to the physical village square.
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For me the electronic village square does not seem as relaxing or comparable to the physical village square.
ReplyDeleteThats a good point... I wonder as the tech advances if it will try to be more like the physical village. At a Google Conference they demo'd Google Hangout... with multiple people on video chat... and it was interesting to watch people in their own element (on deck, in car, on plan, at office)