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Technology Stocks : Broadband Internet via Satellite -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (133)	3/14/2001 2:17:20 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 163

How will satellite internet help the Third World? I am going to list some ways, and not attempt to put them in any order of importance but just how they come to mind. Having access to information on how to build things, how to make things. Plans, explanations. How to purify water. How to build sanitary sewers. How to prevent unwanted births. How to fertilize crops. How to build simple refrigerators. Being able to sell what you make, and buy what others make. Doctors, nurses and lay health care providers will have access to medical libraries and be able to consult with specialists. People who are being oppressed or are starving will be able to ask for help - maybe they won't be able to but relief organizations who monitor them will be able to. Children will read about Gandhi and Martin Luther King and will learn calculus and trigonometry and astronomy and will dream. Women who are in purdah will read things written by Islamic women in the rest of the world and pressure will be brought to bear, or maybe they will learn how to escape, maybe an underground railroad will be set up for them. Even in the poorest countries there are rich people, and some of them want to help their countrymen. Stuff like that. More than we can even dream of.