Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Hello World !

A Classic Techie style of starting anything. For the non-techies reading this, "Hello World" is typically the first program we write in any programming language.

Speaking of Hello World!, i cannot but think of how difficult it must be for a lay person to understand the Tech jargon that have become common place today. For most people in Rural India, Computers and Software are synonyms of Money.

How do you tell your Grandparents what Internet is doing to us? or a School Kid in a village school on how Social Networking was helping create friendships across the world? or a Farm labour on how Weather data can be accessed from the Internet? I think we should take Digital Divide seriously before we have a big social problem.

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