> technology's advancements often seem to favor certain regions or groups over others. Only temporarily, though, it kind of evens out over time: A decade or tw

> technology's advancements often seem to favor certain regions or groups over others. Only temporarily, though, it kind of evens out over time: A decade or two ago, always-on high-speed mobile Internet connections were only available / affordable to relatively affluent people in the West; now homeless people in the West (according to comments on this page) and subsistence farmers in Africa (according to, I think it was BBC Radio I heard some months ago) do. Now, of course, the affluent Westerners have access to and can afford other stuff, that homeless people and African farmers don't -- yet. (So in that sense, it never evens out completely.)