Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that
托比·夏普沙克: 你不需要应用程序
The publisher and editor of Stuff magazine, Toby Shapshak is a South African writer focusing on innovation — and the role it plays in Africa. Full bio
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question, just with a show of hands:
一个问题,请举手回答:
像我一样,去购买了
在非洲的创新活动,
是以一种最纯粹的方式在进行着,
invent the production line
要发明生产流水线
只要是黑色的?(福特名言)
have to invent the dolos?
要发明扭工字块体?
这就是扭工字块体的样子,
和艾瑞克·梅里菲尔德
of the world from space,
where innovation's going on.
创新的地方在哪里,
电力充足的亮光之处。
define it as problem-solving.
我将它定义为解决问题的创新。
解决实际问题的时候,
在同一时间
that you plug into a phone
about the payment system
you can buy your groceries,
你可以用它购买食品,
可以用它贿赂海关官员。
它也是一个火把,
从谷歌邮箱发送邮件。
the gold of today is mobile.
in North America and how that worked,
以及它是如何运作的,
that makes all of this possible.
things that you can do with it?
Bright Simons from Ghana,
布莱特·西蒙斯所发明的东西,
spend their entire month's salary on,
可能花费了他们整个月的工资,
真正能拯救生命。
you can rise out of poverty.
automobile industry in the world.
他会帮我们到达火星,
约翰内斯堡有时被称为 Egoli,
about innovation at the edge.
everybody's updating Facebook,
为“移动先行大陆”
所有这些事情的时候,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Toby Shapshak - Technology writerThe publisher and editor of Stuff magazine, Toby Shapshak is a South African writer focusing on innovation — and the role it plays in Africa.
Why you should listen
Casual readers of Stuff magazine, with its smart and provocative gadget reviews, might not know the glossy comes from not London or New York but offices in South Africa. Toby Shapshak leads the magazine and news site; he's been called "the most high-profile technology journalist in the country" by GQ South Africa. Formerly a senior newspaper reporter covering everything from crime to politics, Shapshak shadowed Nelson Mandela when he was president, and covered the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission after the abolition of apartheid.
He's been writing about innovation, telecommunications and the Internet — and the impact they have on people's lives — for more than 15 years. He's now working on a book about a passionately held belief: that in Africa, necessity is the mother of innovation.
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