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Topic: 2012-10-19 wired.co.uk - So long, information age. Hello, hybrid age (Read 900 times)

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(article from the October 2012 issue of Wired magazine.)

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So long, information age. Hello, hybrid age

Parag Khanna
2012-10-19

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/10/ideas-bank/so-long-information-age-hello-hybrid-age

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In just three decades, mobile phones have become a more pervasive technology than toilets. This means huge disruptions not just in communications but even in banking and medicine. Witness how traditional retail banks in Kenya have been displaced by Safaricom's mobile banking services.
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Nor do we know how we'll be paid: sterling or BitCoin?
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