The Urban v. Rural path of development is a common theme in this blog. "Emerging markets" in Brazil, China, South Africa, India, Egypt and Indonesia have their own "story of stuff". For 3B3K (three billion people earning $3000 dollars per year) internet = entertainment. It's a whole mass media market creating a demand for "good enough" devices. These markets now produce/consume more "stuff" than rich nations do, but they also reuse and repair devices, like rich nations did 25 years ago.
Huge factories devoted to refurbishment of good enough display devices served these markets for the past 20 years. They deserved more credit than they got in the "E-Waste Toxic Dump" press. Unfortunately, I'm the only person writing about it, and I've been labelled. This "well is poisoned".
But what about the demand, the noise, the hunger for music and videos coming from inside those cities?
How are the new hyper-cities like Hong Kong-Shenzhen-Guangzhou (a metropolis with a population as large a Japan) incorporating music and culture from the rural areas migrants came from, and how are those sounds changing when infused with world pop? When we call six billion people "the third world", we put megacities into the same category as Somalian refugee camps.
We talking about a very cosmopolitan three billion people, my friends.
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But what about the demand, the noise, the hunger for music and videos coming from inside those cities?
How are the new hyper-cities like Hong Kong-Shenzhen-Guangzhou (a metropolis with a population as large a Japan) incorporating music and culture from the rural areas migrants came from, and how are those sounds changing when infused with world pop? When we call six billion people "the third world", we put megacities into the same category as Somalian refugee camps.
We talking about a very cosmopolitan three billion people, my friends.
