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article-tgtimes-high-tech-low-life.mw (2725B) |
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1 .SH tgtimes |
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2 High-Tech, Low-Life |
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3 .2C 40v |
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4 . |
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5 .IP "High-Tech" |
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6 Refers to the ability to use complex tools created by engineering, |
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7 or hacking things together. |
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8 . |
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9 .IP "Low-Life" |
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10 Refers to those put aside by society, such as criminal or drug |
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11 dealer, making itself edgy; or hobos and beggars, pushed to the |
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12 edge by more or less everyone. |
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13 . |
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14 .PP |
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15 One way to develop the idea of High-Tech Low-Life would be a |
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16 criminal using modern tools such to empower its crimes. |
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17 A transaction giving the bad guys the big guns. Not good. |
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18 . |
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19 .PP |
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20 But another way to portray it is someone rejected by its surroundings, |
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21 seeking support through technological tools. May it be as a source of |
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22 direct income, or as a way to get informed, or inform its surrounding, |
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23 perhaps the entire world such as what did happen with the late |
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24 revolts in China. |
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25 . |
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26 .PP |
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27 The "High Tech, Low Life" (2012) documentary shows us that it is |
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28 not a science-fiction plot, but a phenomenon happenning today. |
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29 . |
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30 .PP |
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31 Giving High-Tech toys to poor population sounds more like a GAFAM |
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32 (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft) |
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33 plan to rule over the third-world while looking like a humanitarian |
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34 hero saving the world. But another way to see it is surrending the |
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35 Low-Life people to the claws of High-Tech corps, extending further |
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36 the frontiers of ad-tech. |
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37 . |
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38 .PP |
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39 Giving entertainment platform is probably not the most urgent kind |
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40 of technology people without a meal a day is going to need. What |
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41 about a tractor though? In its simplest form, in China again, a 55 |
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42 years-old lady farmer started to use a hoverboard (board to stand on |
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43 with a wheel on left and right) to change 3 hours of daily |
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44 walk to carry the vegetables harvested, into 40 minutes riding this |
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45 board. |
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46 . |
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47 .FS |
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48 https://nextshark.com/chinese-farmer-hoverboard-life/ |
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49 https://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/hd2011/2018/02-13/800254.shtml |
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50 .FE |
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51 . |
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52 .PP |
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53 Or what about deploying long-range point-to-point wireless links |
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54 in west Africa to circumvent the poor cable infrastructure? This |
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55 would help escaping the lobby and regulations that take over the |
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56 few IT resources of that country? |
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57 . |
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58 .FS |
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59 http://www.melissadensmore.com/papers/m4d08-mho-reassessing.pdf |
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60 https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-10-27/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet/ |
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61 .FE |
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62 . |
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63 .PP |
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64 Or even inventing affordable small solar or wind-power stations for |
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65 the tights budgets of off-grid villages? Or an on-street display |
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66 continuously showing live job offers? |
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67 . |
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68 .QP |
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69 Did you open-source a driver for the community as part of your job? |
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70 Installed Linux on an old laptop for someone in need? |
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71 Convincing the boss to make the project open-source? |
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72 Attended a surprising situation of that kind? |
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73 Tell us your story of High-Tech given to Low-Life on #bitreich-en |
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74 IRC channel on the irc.bitreich.org server. |
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