http://www.gomonews.com/un-trialling-mobile-payments-to-help-the-poor/
I've read a fair few articles and written a few on how the mobile phone
is going to revolutionise everything from shopping to gaming. Frankly I
don't give a flying fuck except when it comes to good ideas this this.
Mobile phones are to become the new wallet amongst other things. Again,
don't give a shit. But when local economies collapse and there's no one
or way to pay people but through mobile systems like GCASH then I'm
interested.
What's happened is the mobile phone has become something poorer people
in developing world countries can afford. Within a few years feature
phones will be even cheaper and I wonder if the developing world is
where a lot of recycled handsets end up too. Again, don't give a shit.
Except when I read an article like this. It gives me hope that the
progress of technology isn't there just to make the technorati and
investment bankers rich. It actually makes a difference to those worst
off. Fucking great work by the UN!
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