The Null Device

Computers for the Third World: A new plan for cheap computing for impoverished third-world countries involves giving them PlayStations running Linux, considerably cheaper than industry-standard Wintendo PCs. Mind you, given that the World Bank is behind it, it may be more used to set up data-entry maquiladoras on the cheap, where children can be chained to their desks for 18 hours a day than to actually empower the Third World to be anything more than a more flexible source of slave labour.

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