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by soneca 4241 days ago
And it is a good thing that the privileged people (to not keep using the stereotype of white men) are the early adopters. It would be irresponsible to make people whose time is much more essential to their survival to experiment new tech. A tech that might not deliver the expected value yet. A lot of non-profit do this and it is cruel when the experiment fail to deliver the value, which is often that case, as in any innovation process. Also, it is a great thing that the same tech might affect both the lives of privileged and unprivileged people. This a technology (in the broader sense of the word) that really reduces inequality. If both the son of a Harvard alumni and the son of a brazilian street-sweeper learn how to learn through the computer and internet, then it is a true uniting technology.