Josiah, I was just going to fish out that quote. The point he makes is very subtle - and powerful. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 January 2012 13:55, Josiah Mugambi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josiah.mugambi@gmail.com">josiah.mugambi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">His third paragraph says it all:<br><br><i>But that argument, however well meaning, misses a larger point:
<b>technology is an enabler of rights, not a right itself.</b> There is a high
bar for something to be considered a human right. <b>Loosely put, it must
be among the things we as humans need in order to lead healthy,
meaningful lives, like freedom from torture or freedom of conscience</b>. It
is a mistake to place any particular technology in this exalted
category, since over time we will end up valuing the wrong things. For
example, at one time if you didn�t have a horse it was hard to make a
living. But the important right in that case was the right to make a
living, not the right to a horse. Today, if I were granted a right to
have a horse, I�m not sure where I would put it.</i><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Dennis Kioko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmbuvi@gmail.com" target="_blank">dmbuvi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">The same argument can be used on infrastructure, an area with poor infrastructure will tend to be underdeveloped , whereas an area with good infrastructure such as road networks, electricity and clean water access will tend to be more developed. The Internet plays an important role as the other infrastructure. <br>
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