Technology

Abstract

Very poor people around the world today are choosing a smartphone, even over running water and electricity. The device connects you to the world and gives you access to information, education, price data for goods and services, ability to report corruption and so on. Technology is also the direct cause of our biggest problems—global warming, health issues and potential nuclear annihilation. In developing countries, technology advances are getting food to places that need it, empowering farmers with real-time prices so they can decide the optimal time to go to the market with their crops and delivering quality education to remote villages. Good in theory unless it is the rainy season and then there is no hope of traversing quagmired rural roads.