Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that
托比.薩皮薩克: 最簡單的智慧手機
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:
想有個黑莓手機啊?
在世界的經濟活動中
我們所在的這個城市裡?
invent the production line
have to invent the dolos?
要發明(防波堤護面用的)扭工字塊?
而埃里克.麥瑞菲爾德
of the world from space,
where innovation's going on.
define it as problem-solving.
我把它定義為問題解決方案。
that you plug into a phone
叫基騰格拉的地方拍的,
about the payment system
you can buy your groceries,
用它賄賂海關官員。
用這樣的手機更新臉書、
the gold of today is mobile.
in North America and how that worked,
鐵路系統以及它的運作,
that makes all of this possible.
things that you can do with it?
Bright Simons from Ghana,
叫布萊特·西門子的朋友,
spend their entire month's salary on,
you can rise out of poverty.
automobile industry in the world.
about innovation at the edge.
談論邊緣地區的創新,
everybody's updating Facebook,
說成是手機第一的大陸,
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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