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