Shrinking the gap with cheap laptops
Thursday, October 12, 2006 at 1:54PM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: Report: Libya buys laptops for schoolchildren

Tame tired authoritarian regimes with the honey of connectivity and see what happens.

You know, the story on Qaddafi was that his son convinced him to open up to West and leave a legacy of connectivity.


That and his need for FDI to bolster his energy sector...


Most of Libya's oil fields have never been seriously explored, and it's all light and sweet.


Still, as I've said before, it'll be cellphones and not cheap laptops that shrink the Gap.


Look at 44-year-old me. I mostly blog and surf through my phone now.


Thanks to Eric Fisher for sending this in.

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