This comment was left by Jaive on Ali Dark's site. Jaive is a native of Indonesia and is trying to help improve the country by using the potential of the Internet.
The comment gave me a perspective into how people in developing countries are exposed to technologies that many in the developed world take for granted. I loved Jaive's point about how humans have the special ability to take theories and ideas and challenge them and how when we don't challenge them, we're throwing that gift away. (His English isn't great, but I decided not to correct it so that I could preserve his voice.)
You know when i was in Uni, we didnt have any internet connections, emails or web mails. ( this was in the early 2000s). We all shared computers, 40 PCs between 200 students.
In our library all we had on computers and internet where books from the 80?s, early 90?s.
And like you said…when people talked about the internet and the possibilities, it was all third hand ideas, collected from random articles in newspapers and second magazines.
But the beauty of being human is to test ideas, take theory and apply. It is when we are no testing ideas, that we are slaves to someone else’s opinion of what works or what doesnt. We are trapped in their interpretation, caught in their translation, forming our own opinions based on what is not our own opinion.
It is only when we test these ideas, its is only when we challenge them and challenge ourselves that we move beyond and in the process if discovery, helps others move to make or break their own ideas and concepts.
I have seen how an increase in blogging and internet projects by many friends in PNG and many tell me that it was because i started.