I cannot help thinking that many in the IT world are now planning to conquer Cuba. So those crowfunders that are planning to go to Mars should think twice.
Let us imagine how IT in Cuba would develop. So far some basic software is going to be allowed to circulate. But what is next? Will it be the telecoms infrastructure, the cloud services, the legacy systems? Will the Western world impose its evolutionary and strategically aligned view of IT in this new 'universe'?
To my limited knowledge, there is already mobile comunicacions. There is blogging. But there is no electronic data to be considered as such. Good thing I think. Hopefully the drive to see this universe conquered in terms of Big Data will be delayed. At least for a while.
IT helps colonise the world. It brings possibilities but also problems. I really hope Cuba does its own history with IT rather than simply copy what others have done. IT brings ways of thinking. And of living. They should decide which of these are desirable and which are not. And they should also be allowed to teach the rest of the world one or two things about IT.
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