I'm ostensibly responding to everyone here that posted a comment similar to your own. I've been traveling for 8 months now, nearly 6 of which were through a ha

I'm ostensibly responding to everyone here that posted a comment similar to your own. I've been traveling for 8 months now, nearly 6 of which were through a half dozen in South America, including the poorest, Bolivia. The Internet and computers have had huge impacts on the day to day lives of the people in these countries. Wifi is widely available almost everywhere, the only time we had some difficulty was in a city on the precipice of the deep Amazonian jungle. As I understand it, the idea of hard currency is being challenged in many African countries due to proliferation of cell phones and other technologies facilitated by the Internet. Social networks are allowing for evasion of government censorship in middle eastern and Asian countries. So, I guess, what I'm saying is, I challenge the premise of any comment that relegates the benefits of computers and the Internet to first world, western countries.