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Monday, October 11, 2004

A MacGyver for the Third World. An MIT inventor bent on public service creates practical solutions to life-threatening problems around the world. Her approach: be a master of the obvious. Second in a series profiling this year's MacArthur 'genius award' winners. By Kari Lynn Dean. [Wired News]

Einstein remarked that imagination is more important than knowledge. This story supports it very well.


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India Emerges as Innovation Hub. Indian labs churn out technologies to help users in developing countries keep up with the information age even if they can't afford a computer, don't live near a phone or speak a language that can't be typed on a standard keyboard. By Manu Joseph. [Wired News]

India in western eyes, especially the so called media elites, is a confusing array of colors and smells and nothing more. Its intellect, resolve, and skills have been suppressed for centuries first by colonial powers and later by greedy, illiterate politicians, and a morbid socialist policy. Free market pholosophies thrusted on Indians by the economic crisis have released a flood gate of innovative and entrpreneurial initiatives. The world will be better for it!


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