SMS stands for Short Message Service and is available on most mobile devices, allowing the user to send and receive short text messages. It has been around for 15 years and it may engage a much more significant percentage of the world population as Internet users.
In my previous post déjà vu I had concluded that the future of the web will be shaped by the growth of influential population sectors demanding services that suit their needs. While today’s web activities for most users are driven in great measure by their ability to commit a good number of hours per week to work/play on content-rich sites, we must assume that once the next wave of users starts to adopt it, their needs will be tied to their daily challenges and likely less availability of “fun” time.
A great demonstration of such adoption is given by Warana Unwired, a project developed by Microsoft Research India in the state of Maharashtra, with the objective of serving 70,000 farmers across 75 villages:
The original goals of the project were to give internet access to farmers, to allow farmers to check market prices so that they can sell the produce to the market [...]
With his post Global Warming Is Not a Threat But the Environmentalist Response to It Is, George Reisman comes to the rescue of the capitalist values that justify the actions of global corporations as they continue their irresponsible abuse of the planet.
Since I posted my own comentary about the IPCC report about a month ago, in the spirit of facing the critics I wanted to give some space to the arguments being used by Reisman to discredit this global initiative.
At the core of his argument, the main premise is that it would be more damaging to society to halt progress in the name of controlling the warming of the planet:
global warming should simply be accepted as a byproduct of economic progress and that life should go on as normal in the face of it.
Citing the fact that industrial civilization has enabled growth to the point where the average person has a better life today than the most wealthy a few generations ago, he cautions the stakes are high. To keep the industrial civilization running as we know it, we have no alternative but to continue the use of fossil fuels.
If we assume that everyone accepts global warming as a [...]
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