If you don't like the recycling you see in the non-OECD nations (about 6 billion people), look elsewhere. "Elsewhere" within the non-OECD is an incredibly sophisticated, layered, textured market. Wait fifteen seconds, walk five meters, and you will see something or someone completely different.
Cameroon has changed since I lived there in the 80s. Douala (the port city and economic capital) has just been "wired" by high speed optic, as of December 12... Cameroun's first "smart city".
Meanwhile, the level of suspicion raised by anti-export groups has risen to comic book proportions. There is a huge campaign, backed by nanny-NGOs, planned obsolescence, and heavy shredding investors, dedicated to preserving decade old images of children in puddles of filth. They want us all to believe there is no convergence, that 6 billion people are moving backward, away from the OECD.
If you actually work with the geeks and the techs, you see that the world is developing in positive ways, faster than believed possible. Yes, there are child soldiers, there are terrorists, there are Somali pirates, there is disease, and there is poverty. But the tide is rising, not falling. And the seed is the same as in Singapore and Japan - Geeks and Tinkerers, Fixers, and Techs.
Cameroon has changed since I lived there in the 80s. Douala (the port city and economic capital) has just been "wired" by high speed optic, as of December 12... Cameroun's first "smart city".
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If you actually work with the geeks and the techs, you see that the world is developing in positive ways, faster than believed possible. Yes, there are child soldiers, there are terrorists, there are Somali pirates, there is disease, and there is poverty. But the tide is rising, not falling. And the seed is the same as in Singapore and Japan - Geeks and Tinkerers, Fixers, and Techs.
