{"id":680660,"date":"2010-03-02T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5483912"},"modified":"2010-03-02T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:40:00","slug":"can-infotech-a-tech-trade-show-third-world-style-image-cache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680660","title":{"rendered":"CAN InfoTech: A Tech Trade Show, Third World-Style [Image Cache]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>286 booths, and nary an iPhone in sight. In fact, a lot of the gadgets on display here were first released in 2007<\/em>. Welcome to CAN InfoTech<\/a>: the CES of Nepal.<\/p>\n

BoingBoing’s photo tour<\/a> of the January conference, held in a country with a near-50% unemployment rate and a per-capita GDP of $1,200, paints a picture of a sort of proto-CES, in which Apple is a new and novel brand, many of the attendees don’t have mobile phones, and electric generators are a prime attraction.
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\nI’m not sure why, but I assumed a trade show like this would be inflected with a different feeling. Instead of complaining about ebook reader overload<\/a> or a crowded trade floor, attendees would glimpse a technological future that a lot of the world lives in, and that they too could one day enjoy. But no: A trade show is a trade show, all the way down the economic scale. It’s a way for innovators and hucksters alike to get the word out, for better or for worse, about the thing they’re trying to sell right then.<\/em><\/p>\n

Head over to the source for the full photo set, because it’s utterly fascinating, from the 2008-vintage Sony catalog on display to the cellophane-wrapped display laptops. I’ll never complain about CES again. (This is a lie.) [BoingBoing<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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286 booths, and nary an iPhone in sight. In fact, a lot of the gadgets on display here were first released in 2007. Welcome to CAN InfoTech: the CES of Nepal. BoingBoing’s photo tour of the January conference, held in a country with a near-50% unemployment rate and a per-capita GDP of $1,200, paints a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2R4o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}