I had a discussion today with my Mongolian friend about her children's constant internet use and how accustomed they are to having access to a computer. They are currently visiting their father's relatives in countryside during the winter holidays, staying in a ger which has a generator-powered television with satellite TV but definitely no computer..."Yes," she laughs, "They are probably very bored now without the internet."
I know Mongolians are not considered to be the most tech-savvy, but it's interesting to me as technology becomes such a driving force in the way life is conducted in the "first world" how the rest of the world adapts and is newly disempowered or is alternatively enfranchised...thought for another time. Also, I wish the google chorme translate feature would recognize that Mongolian is an actual language and let me correct the translate feature /end rant
On a somewhat related note, a few weeks after I started blogging, I noticed a few weird things on blogger's automatic statistics...weird hits from Russia and England. Figuring out they were most likely spambots, I started using the google analytic service. Supposedly it's more reliable, but sometimes I still get weird hits. A few people have made their way from google (including someone from italy!), and I'm not sure I really met their keyword search intention but hey. When I checked today, I had a recent hit from Pelotas, Brazil and a few hits from someone who lives in Newport News, Virginia. I've never heard of either of those cities, so it was fun to read about them on wikipedia. All the same, the power of the internet is both wonderful and weird...and some days are definitely more weird than others
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