While the technology revolution has yet to reach far into the households of those in developing countries, this is certainly another area where more developed countries can assist those in the less developed world.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as old tech.
Technology advances at exponential rates, and human institutions and societies do not. They adapt at much slower rates. Those gaps get wider and wider.
Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
Societies advance through innovation every bit as much as economies do.
It's not going to be true that every country has the same technological possibilities, but there is no reason why it might not be more or less true. Broadly, that the idea that the same technologies should be available everywhere seems to me very plausible.
All over the world, we're seeing access to food, clean water, education and healthcare improve; as a result, global innovation is rising as well.
When you look at the actual data on technological innovation, one thing you see is that what I call the 'low-hanging fruit' has been exhausted. So radio, flush toilets, electricity, and automobiles - a lot of very basic inventions - have spread to almost all households.
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life.
I think technology is spreading, and I think one's experience of technology is going to relate increasingly to class - not so much to country.