I could get into a lightly-powered tent life. I wonder how much these things run?

but so far, not development, drilling, or industrialization.

I saw a TED talk on this very thing last night, the developing world leapfrogging over technologies that got the developed world where it is to more efficient, smaller technologies like cell phones instead of land lines, wireless instead of DSL or cable, and small scale solar instead of an electrical grid.

I really love the satellite dish in that picture, all the comforts of home--at home, wherever they've had to put the home. Must be a bugger to aim, though.

The tech industry might even embrace this phenomenon and start looking to beta-test their stuff in the Global South.

the the internet boom like 15-20 years ago. Now those jobs are gone. But at least they didn't poison the land so badly during the 20 century.

No need for developing countries to recapitulate the history of developed countries, including all their wasteful mistakes and inefficient older technologies.

Of course, he invented communications satellites, so you didn't have to explain the relative costs of an uplink vs copper wires through the wilderness to him.