ARTICLE: "A Society On the Threshold Of Change: Bhutanese Confront Modernization Warily," by Emily Wax, Washington Post, 4 April 2008, p. A14.THE WORLD: "The Doctor is Online," sources include Reuters and The Economist, Washington Post, 4 April 2008, p. A14.
Ethiopia connects to web and virtually imports Indian docs. Why? Ethiopia has one doc per 37k, and India's got one per 1,666.
So the decision on that connectivity is easy.
Bhutan opens up to sat TV in 1999. Soon enough, MTV and the WWF are banned. Too many kids fighting in emulation. This is a country where daycare for working moms is still considered "mind-altering."
Everyone wants connectivity, but they also typically want to control content.
An oldie but a goodie ...
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Too bad so much content from the US appeals to our worst human impulses and so many Americans are not spiritually well enough to kill those types of content by free market abstinence ... to dry up their markets at home.
Pornographers and producers of violent content used to be shunned and shamed in our society, not idolized. We should improve our standards by choosing only more edifying content, thereby removing much of the angst against us in traditional societies at the same time.
Posted by VoteWithTroops | April 19, 2008 12:11 PM
Everybody wants connectivity so long as it reaps PROFITS for 'em.Just look @ the likes of China or Singapore.You wanna control content 'coz you don't want another civil war like the Taiping Rebellion.
Or some new age cult thingy that's gonna turn the whole countryside into another Waco,TX.
Posted by Yours Truly | April 22, 2008 5:49 AM