Comments on: Will China’s Farmers Buy Computers? Not. http://dontai.com/wp/2009/03/06/china-farmers-buy-computers/ Have Lemons, Make Lemonade Sun, 06 May 2012 18:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 By: BILL GATES http://dontai.com/wp/2009/03/06/china-farmers-buy-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-2707 BILL GATES Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:43:31 +0000 http://dontai.com/wp/?p=684#comment-2707 1. MOORE'S LAW: Double computing power every 2-years...... same price/double the power. 2. Prices have fallen where anyone/anytime/anywhere can get a computer price in the range of $100-$500 Now. 3. Computers are commodities like TV, Radio, bicycles.... China/India/whole world will benefit from cheap computers... 1. MOORE’S LAW: Double computing power every 2-years…… same price/double the power.

2. Prices have fallen where anyone/anytime/anywhere can get a computer price in the range of $100-$500 Now.

3. Computers are commodities like TV, Radio, bicycles…. China/India/whole world will benefit from cheap computers…

]]> By: David Ing http://dontai.com/wp/2009/03/06/china-farmers-buy-computers/comment-page-1/#comment-86 David Ing Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:08:33 +0000 http://dontai.com/wp/?p=684#comment-86 The price of computers has now fallen so much that I wonder if they should or should not be considered as appliances. Computers are becoming so much like televisions. The television we bought last November has an LCD panel, and can be used as a computer monitor. Of course, in the west, we have the Internet, so the sources of content are more readily available than in rural China. I wonder if China has a plan to move to digital television. The price of computers has now fallen so much that I wonder if they should or should not be considered as appliances. Computers are becoming so much like televisions. The television we bought last November has an LCD panel, and can be used as a computer monitor.

Of course, in the west, we have the Internet, so the sources of content are more readily available than in rural China. I wonder if China has a plan to move to digital television.

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