If you have some time to spare, I recommend reading this article from the New York Times on cell phones, the developing world, and poverty. I found this article really enlightening. The anthropologist/designer that they hired to me seems to have a dream job. As someone who's read a lot of social theory, it's interesting to extrapolate the effects that cell phones have even to the most impoverished members of society. If trends continue, it seems like every person in the world may soon enough have a cell phone. How interesting is that? What effect do you think this would have on society?
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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