Rajesh Veeraraghavan on Information Politics and Social Change
Ideas of India
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The Relevance of Technology in India, Is It?
Melig: It feels like at each level of economic growth, the relevant technology will automatically be adopted. As people get richer and they get sel phones, they're more likely to start using those self phones. And eventually, you know, if they first use the phones to just talk to their family members, they're eventually going to start using it to figure out agricultural market prices for sugar cane. Melig: The moral one, nobody predicted it, mowell once happened in ther adoption. Nobody expected this leveloment in our reach and use and all sorts of innovations that you could not dream up - everything was an accident.
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