5. Technology Changes The Developing World

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Eighty percent of the earth's population now lives within range of a cell phone network. And as of 2006, nearly 70 percent of the world's cell phone subscriptions were in developing countries. A cell phone user in Hyderabad, India Arthur Molella, who heads the Smithsonian Institution's Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation in Washington, says mobile phones are having all kinds of impacts...
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"They have a definite democratizing effect in traditional countries or countries with fairly rigid hierarchies. And clearly, they are a way to get around a lot of restrictions. So there's a subversive aspect to these things, of both governments and of customs," says Molella...
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