How to Save the World pt.2

We are now living in a world of inadequacies. If you are lucky enough to live in a first world country than you are able to have a decent life without trying too hard. Everything seems to get easier when you can earn enough money to support a family without working your ass off. I don't really want to sound too much like Zeitgeist or anything but that is a fact that it's almost we're living somebody else's lives. We are not really sure about what's happening in other continents, how people get by? Trying to make something for some profit either it's hard labor or something extra creative and sell it to some company for them to sell it to someone else for a much bigger profit. 

We seem to forget it's individuals creating to society, not the society creating the individuals.

But for the last 12 years, there is a major change in our lives, i know we all take it for granted now and don't understand how important it is, i happen to believe it's one of the only good things concerning the human development in the last century. It's internet. 

So now you are reading a totally random persons thoughts living a normal life in a very far away country. Something that was much harder to do 15 years ago. You can now connect to pretty much anyone on the planet within seconds now. More importantly, you can put your thoughts, ideas for anyone to see too. This would seem like sci-fi 50 years ago. And even more importantly, internet has come to be this huge database where you can educate yourself, grow ideas from, understand and archive anything you want.

Now let's step back a little and think about a little 8 years old kid, living in a small village in middle east or africa. All he knows about this world comes from his parents, his teachers, village elders, t.v that's showing lots of commercials very few educational programs. 

Much different than life of a kid in New York, U.S yet a lot more common in our world. This is not fair, it angers me even to think about the capacities that could make a change has to go to waste just because they are not given the chance to improve themselves.

There is a chance of fixing this though. I'm really enthuiastic about this, even it way too much optimistic, i do think it can happen. Now let me explain the 2 steps to this.

Step 1: There is a technology of distributing internet via electricity. You can check out about this here, here and here.

Step 2: You've probably heard about the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) campaign as it was all over the news for some time. This is a great project and I've following the results, and it does seriously work. You can checkout about this project on wikipedia or their homepage. Basically one laptop costs $199 which is very cheap and also you can get one and give one for $399. "One Laptop per Child is not about a machine it's about a movement" they say on their webpage and i think this could actually make a change in someone's life. 

I'm not going to go on and on about; if US spent %10 of what it spends on war everychild could have one of these laptops etc. What I 'll say is; it's one of the things that matters to someone. It's about evening the circumstances. 

Now, put these two steps together. We could have everyone can go online. Everyone could have a huge library in their rooms. When I talk about this; people usually tell me; "Well, if you give a laptop and an internet connection to a kid in Iraq, he would probably spend all his time looking up porn or sell the laptop for some money and forget about it." That response infuriates me actually. This is about giving a chance to an individual, not about trying to educate him yourself. It's up to them to make something out of the opportunity but it's a human right to "have" the opportunity.

Anyway, whatever anyone thinks, at least I have a plan, and I have contributed in it. That's what you should be doing too.