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RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology micro-summaries for October 13, 2019
I note the handheld diagnostic tool for Cassava disease is an excellent example of decentralization, limited AI, and of how the more advanced tech is the faster it disseminates, and to the people that need it most, generally less financially able folks.
This gives me great hope.
Thanks!
Agreed. And this one in particular has a huge compounding effect. By getting food to so many people and shoring up the finances for the farmers who do it, the project (hopefully) enables huge amounts of future productivity from large numbers of people who would have otherwise been struggling just to survive.