Kentaro Toyama's Can Technology End Poverty?

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In the present life, it would be an enormous amount, if we total up the number of all the people around the world who require help. Poverty is still persisting in numerous countries. There is no one to provide opportunities to seek for help and create a fuller life for them. Some governments are corrupt and profit for themselves rather than provide charity; furthermore, they do not establish any policies to provide for citizens. Throughout the decades, countless people have tried lots of different ways to overthrow the poverty and look forward to a new century, but not many people have been able to succeed. The technology is extremely useful for Everyone who lives in the universe. “Kentaro Toyama’s article, “Can Technology End Poverty?” argues …show more content…

In that area, the geography affects both of these aspects of their lives. Toyama makes some flawed argument as he speaks just few effects of geography, but neglects lots of things including the distribution of the power of geography. For example, when he discuses to India, especially in Retawadi, he neglects almost most important things that affect to the life of people such as resources, farming techniques, land uses, poor-quality of electricity and water supplies. Geography of a village such as climate patterns, wind directions, topographic locations, etc. That base on the development and affect how people build and live their life. In the final analysis, Toyama neglects all the most important that influence how physical geography relate to the people and how the people relate with technology. However, in the present life, a lot of people are still indolent and using technology for selfish purposes, such as entertain by watched movies, played video games and accessed to adult websites when using devices rather than learned how to grow foods, build the dams. In social, while lots people unawareness how important to use technology, that is why they stay poor. Thus, there are still many individuals live in villages are grieve with crop failures, famines, climate patterns, and other dangerous situations. In those villages, as India located in Central-South Asia (Google images), here is …show more content…

Education could help them; first, start from the poor kid and then to become a wealthy man. It is not only make people become rich, but it also makes students get more knowledge, feel smarter, and know what they suppose to do for their life and social. However, this author did not talk much of the affect of the country’s public school and opportunity to attain school. For example, when he discuses Retawadi, he neglects the public schools, the lack of attention of the apparatus government, and the dangers of day-to-day of each individual. Although he said “a hundred rupees for couple hours of each week for math lesson.” Education has to do a lot of a country—rights to attend school, rights to learn, etc.—effect a lot to how student going to build their life and live wealthier. In the general about education, Toyama was flawed of the effect of the technology relate with education. In fact, as when technology has come to the country, some people are lazy or do what they want such as young men who “entertained watch movies” “steal privacy information” and “accessed adult websites” when on their devices. However, on the other side like television not only tool to entertain or chill out for fun, but it could help people get out of illiteracy by show them how to talk, learn and write over the digital media. Yet many individuals in the country are suffer with no chance to

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