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“There are more mobile phones in Uganda than light bulbs”
- mtgx 14y agoPeople keep underestimating how important communication is between humans. It can be more important than stuff like lightbulbs or hot water, which may seem counter-intuitive, but lightbulbs and hot water are mostly recent inventions, while phone calling is just an extension of communication between 2 or more people, just over longer distances.
- cafard 14y agoHot water is a recent invention? Gas and electric water heaters may be, but there are bath tubs and hot baths in the Homeric epics, which were composed about 750 BCE. And if we can count phone calling as an extension of ocmmunication, how are light bulbs not an extension of artificial lighting, which goes back to simple torches.