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1 .SH tgtimes
2 High-Tech, Low-Life
3 .2C 40v
4 .
5 .IP "High-Tech"
6 Refers to the ability to use complex tools created by engineering,
7 or hacking things together.
8 .
9 .IP "Low-Life"
10 Refers to those put aside by society, such as criminal or drug
11 dealer, making itself edgy; or hobos and beggars, pushed to the
12 edge by more or less everyone.
13 .
14 .PP
15 One way to develop the idea of High-Tech Low-Life would be a
16 criminal using modern tools such to empower its crimes.
17 A transaction giving the bad guys the big guns. Not good.
18 .
19 .PP
20 But another way to portray it is someone rejected by its surroundings,
21 seeking support through technological tools. May it be as a source of
22 direct income, or as a way to get informed, or inform its surrounding,
23 perhaps the entire world such as what did happen with the late
24 revolts in China.
25 .
26 .PP
27 The "High Tech, Low Life" (2012) documentary shows us that it is
28 not a science-fiction plot, but a phenomenon happenning today.
29 .
30 .PP
31 Giving High-Tech toys to poor population sounds more like a GAFAM
32 (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft)
33 plan to rule over the third-world while looking like a humanitarian
34 hero saving the world. But another way to see it is surrending the
35 Low-Life people to the claws of High-Tech corps, extending further
36 the frontiers of ad-tech.
37 .
38 .PP
39 Giving entertainment platform is probably not the most urgent kind
40 of technology people without a meal a day is going to need. What
41 about a tractor though? In its simplest form, in China again, a 55
42 years-old lady farmer started to use a hoverboard (board to stand on
43 with a wheel on left and right) to change 3 hours of daily
44 walk to carry the vegetables harvested, into 40 minutes riding this
45 board.
46 .
47 .FS
48 https://nextshark.com/chinese-farmer-hoverboard-life/
49 https://www.chinanews.com.cn/tp/hd2011/2018/02-13/800254.shtml
50 .FE
51 .
52 .PP
53 Or what about deploying long-range point-to-point wireless links
54 in west Africa to circumvent the poor cable infrastructure? This
55 would help escaping the lobby and regulations that take over the
56 few IT resources of that country?
57 .
58 .FS
59 http://www.melissadensmore.com/papers/m4d08-mho-reassessing.pdf
60 https://www.resilience.org/stories/2015-10-27/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet/
61 .FE
62 .
63 .PP
64 Or even inventing affordable small solar or wind-power stations for
65 the tights budgets of off-grid villages? Or an on-street display
66 continuously showing live job offers?
67 .
68 .QP
69 Did you open-source a driver for the community as part of your job?
70 Installed Linux on an old laptop for someone in need?
71 Convincing the boss to make the project open-source?
72 Attended a surprising situation of that kind?
73 Tell us your story of High-Tech given to Low-Life on #bitreich-en
74 IRC channel on the irc.bitreich.org server.