When you visit a Shopping Mall in Asia, you find a huge range of IT products on offer, and a huge price range for similar products, ranging from unbranded products to the big names in IT. These products are getting cheaper, more diverse and more affordable.
Laptops are one example, over the last ten years when Industries were relocated to the developing World. Innovators in Countries like China, and India took these products they were manufacturing, and tried to make them cheaper and more affordable, creating new markets for their own products.
Now Microsoft have already partnered with an Indian designer to create an energy efficient 200 US Dollar Laptop, and the Indian designers have successfully made a 10 dollar Laptop, Asus in Taiwan, are selling innovative mini-laptops, at 289 US Dollars.
There is no doubt, that innovation in the IT Industry will create new customers, who will join the Internet Revolution experienced in places like Hanoi, Calcutta, and Dhaka. Along with this change, is the realization that educating people to use this technology, will become a boom in the next few years.
Technology will become smaller. Mobiles will only sell if they contain a lot of extras that a few years ago no mobile manufacturer will consider cost effective. Now Manufacturers in the developing World, are creating their own Mobile brands, that are inexpensive, loaded with extras and bring technology to people who ten years ago, could barely afford a basic phone.
The technological revolution that started in the early 1990's marches on, but in Countries that never were part of the IT revolution, and tech savvy Citizens of these Countries will compete with their counterparts in the USA, and Europe, bringing ever cheaper innovations, that only will wire up the World, even if it is currently in relative gloom.
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