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RE: From the stone age to modern warfare in a couple of years and the hunter-gatherer lifestyle lost.
A real tragedy. The bushmen certainly got a raw deal from all sides in southern Africa. Years ago I got to meet the legendary Jan Kruiper, one of the Bushmen outside of Kgalagadi National Park....what a fascinating man he was.
The bushmen ought to create their own nomadic society and cryptocurrency. Yes, it's a crazy idea, but imagine what they could do.
They could be a roaming clan of assassins or traders - maybe similar to gypsies and have their own international currency trade going on.
Someone just needs to teach them to use computers.
That's a deeply cyberpunk notion you just put out there; very appealing fictional vision!
Heh. While funny, that's not insurmountable. A specialized glyphic/pictorial touchscreen interface with a ruggedized body could be made to work with this setup.
Hmm.
Did you ever see this? Sugata Mitra's "Hole in the Wall" experiment proved just how quickly non-literate individuals (albeit children) can teach themselves to use the actual internet given access. With an interface designed specifically to be ultra-simplified and maximally self-teachable, who knows?
I might write a short story on this. You've convinced me of my idea being interesting enough to warrant one :).
I'd never seen that article. That is such an awesome thing to do for people. I'd love to set something like that up in poor areas here in CR. Amazing times we live in.
Hey, that's my line! :D
I might not write fiction about it but I'll definitely write something. Thanks for the inspiration 👍
Haha, awesome! It's a worthy idea. :) We could do a collab story one scene at a time maybe.
Um, I got, uh, crazy obsessive about the concept amd wrote about 3000 words of speculative non-fiction - about 1500 of which I am about to post ...
EDIT: ... and now I have
Oh dear 🙈
Oh man, that was awesome.
Excellent stuff :)