The true heir of Abraham Maslow
Attributed to Abraham Maslow (albeit possibly apocryphally):
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Which leads us to Cory Doctorow:
Poverty and its associated problems – hunger, poor health, lack of education and disenfranchisement – are fundamentally information problems.
Embarrassing for everybody. And he got paid for it, as well.
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[...] Paul Currion recently compared Abraham Moslow’s quote, “When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.” to an article by Cory Doctorow in the Guardian titled, “Laptops, not mobile phones, are the means to liberate the developing world“. [...]
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