In an Op-Ed column in today's Washington Post, Anne Applebaum raises the important relationships between technology, equity and quality of life in our developing world. (Tiny Car, Tough Questions, Page A13) She focuses on the developing world, using the introduction of the Tata Nano as an example of the double edge that making a middle class live accessible to a much larger population on earth will have. Comments posted on the WaPo site indicate that a fair number of people sense her conflation of ability to pay some sort of righteousness - when they are actually unrelated to the logical question at hand.
This is primarily a food, farming and technology blog so I want to point out how her general misunderstanding of the sociology of technology bleeds over into our world here in the food and farming biz because has apparently bit the biotech booster message big time and isn't even aware of it. Here's how:
