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No. You are out of touch. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/01/15/cellphone-toilet https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/201
by bitcoinisqueen 8y ago
No. You are out of touch.
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/01/15/cellphone-toilet https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/01/1...
The fact is that 20% of the world's poorest has a smartphone and is in many cases more valuable than running water or sanitation.
Within 10-20 years we will have 50km range wifi, with solar powered batteries and ultra low cost computing power and many more of the poor will be brought into the connected economica world via smartphones, long range power and internet tech and micro transactions with ultra low fees powered by tech like bitcoin (cash).
The last startup I worked at 3 years ago sold Android smartphones for $5 USD.
Unbelievable that I get called out of touch when the author is a couple years behind the curve. Nice vision and imagination, man.
- dang 8y agoWould you please stop posting flamebait comments on divisive topics to Hacker News? It's not what this site is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bitcoinisqueen 8y agoIt is divisive to point out that the hype behind crypto currencies has to do with empowering the poor? My apologies for bringing up facts when parent brought a personal attack.
- dang 8y agoThis reply is itself a good example of the flamewar style: low substance, hot topic, irritable rhetoric. I understand the temptation to post this way, but on HN we're trying to eke out a small space not dominated by it. The idea here is thoughtful conversation. You're welcome to participate in that, but not to turn it into something different, which is what flamebait and flamewars do.
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