From: john grigg (starman125@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Feb 28 2000 - 17:29:02 MST
Skye wrote:
*grins* of course, a more interesting plan would be to get the internet
*into* the poor children... if we had the technology. I say, to every person
a plug, and to every plug, an ethernet hub! *grumbles*
(end)
Aha!! So Skye is going to grow up to be the Borg Queen! :) It would be
interesting to do this as a social experiment but the challenge would be
having a program to implement that could make a real change in the lives of
these kids and the economies they live in.
I would be worried that the plugs would get infected resulting in severe
illness and even death. Considering how medical resources are so limited in
the third world this would be a possibility.
I have had my own thoughts regarding children of the future. In the next
decade or two, I see a global blackmarket developing where China and India
will pay for female children because parents in those nations were so
myopically obsessed with having male offspring only. It is a wonderful at
times but also horrible world we live in.
sincerely,
John Grigg
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