Comments on: Here Comes Trouble: The Human Network http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/here-comes-trouble-the-human-network/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dimitrios Matsoulis http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/here-comes-trouble-the-human-network/#comment-190593 Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:56:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/here-comes-trouble-the-human-network/#comment-190593 I agree with Eideard, cellphones are the most accessible devices at the moment, offering acceptable battery life and messaging capability -written communication!- even in the most basic models. For progress after that, I am afraid that the problems that technology will solve are those that pose the biggest obstacles for initial adoption. As asian countries adopt new tech more and more there is some light at the end of the tunnel. Unfortunately Africa is very much behind and for the moment I can see less hope there. The OLPC I have to say makes me more optimistic.
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]]> By: Eideard http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/here-comes-trouble-the-human-network/#comment-190592 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:12:12 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/here-comes-trouble-the-human-network/#comment-190592 This is, of course, a portion of the direction of what Jobs is talking about when he uses the word “convergence”. There are large chunks of people who – for one or another ideological or philosophical reason – resent that perception. I doubt if Jobs cares. I certainly don’t.

The fact remains that the device[s] which will enable qualitative increase in education, understanding and access to communications are defined by price. To me, that means cell phones – not PDA’s. Not OLPC.

]]> By: Here Comes the Human Network | Bippr http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/here-comes-trouble-the-human-network/#comment-190591 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 17:15:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/here-comes-trouble-the-human-network/#comment-190591 [...] Daniel Berninger has provided a convincing argument for easy communication as a means to helping in global issues. ‘For the vast majority of the 6.6 billion people on Earth, proximity continues to dominate daily life. Communication tools remain insufficiently distributed to alter the accidental realities of war and wealth tied to place of birth [..] 70 percent of the world population remains disconnected.’ [...]

]]> By: Aman Sehgal http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/here-comes-trouble-the-human-network/#comment-190590 Wed, 09 Jan 2008 13:21:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/08/here-comes-trouble-the-human-network/#comment-190590 Its true that almost 70% of the people in this world have not made a phone call and are waiting for Companies to build infrastructure (Networks and Handsets) that can enable them to communicate and that too at low price. I know that it is difficult and requires a lot of innovation and thinking for all the companies involved in value chain to serve these people lying in the bottom of the pyramid but if Companies can have their business model based on some strategy that addresses the basic requirements of this group of people then only it can become Human Network where everyone is connected.As mentioned Cisco is planning to tap this market by using Internet as its main technology (Packet Based Data) but I feel other companies can also come up with some technologies (such as Circuit Switched Data) on which most of the telephone networks work across the globe then it will be better.

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