Software firms such as Google and Microsoft have been seeking to stay close to consumers by providing many innovative and inexpensive tools that empower individuals to explore creative ways of demonstrating power-of-one commerce. Here is the latest example from Google: Official Google Video Blog.
Widespread adoption of such technologies, both in developed and developing countries, provides sufficient scale for a compelling business advantage. Imagine a modern, inexpensive, low power, ruggedized consumer device with
a) an electronic paper display
b) an open-source OS platform,
c) a utility tool chest,
d) a secure, self-managed, and bandwidth preserving optimized wireless mesh technology, and
e) a host of multimedia and multimodal capabilities.
Assuming the world of digital commerce, the utility value of such a device becomes apparent to those intending to deliver services to a digital community. Examples of such visions include the universal personal appliance - H21, One Laptop Per Child, and hybrid/ruggedized Tablet PC. While no one can portend the unhealthy consequences associated with the digital communities in future, realization of the latter may be closer than we think.
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