For a moment I thought you wrote frontiers-of-ethiopian-tourism :) I for one expect ancient cultures to start contributing again to modernity, despite the long break. Certainly there is something to be said about avoiding hardware projects when local productivity and production is 100 years behind the 10 industrial leaders of the world (applies to Ethiopia as much as it does to Greece and another 150 countries). But software, yes, they should dive in with abandon and, considering the actual "productization" and the bootstrapping of the IT sector then, I am sorry to say, a lot of us natives are to blame. Yes, there is no local DARPA to throw a few million your way, but no, our best and brightest are still doing too little to package free and cheap products, to share their resources etc. Time to pool some resources for exotic languages OCR perhaps?
AT On 26.10.2012, at 01:40, Ben Goertzel <[email protected]> wrote: > Based on my brief visit to Ethiopia last month ... > > http://www.kurzweilai.net/ai-and-ethiopia-an-unexpected-synergy > > http://hplusmagazine.com/2012/10/25/four-days-at-the-frontiers-of-ethiopian-futurism/ > > -- Ben > > -- > Ben Goertzel, PhD > http://goertzel.org > > "My humanity is a constant self-overcoming" -- Friedrich Nietzsche > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/14050631-7d925eb1 > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-c97d2393 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-2484a968 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
