Best Reading of the Day - Entry 0140 Third World Model for Payments

This story, the entire article, transported me away to a very different world with very different possibilities and forced me to ask a number of questions.

What could we be doing if we were starting with a blank slate?

Is the weight of our world, and the offerings in that world, going to ultimately keep us from achieving the potential breaking through during the Information Revolution?

Read this story:

http://recode.net/2014/07/24/disrupting-payments-africa-style/

Here is a snippet from that piece:

Spending time in the developing world, one can always marvel at the resourcefulness of people living in often extraordinarily difficult conditions. The challenges of living in many parts of the world certainly cause one to reflect on what we see from day to day. Here in the U.S., we’re all familiar with the transformative nature of mobile phones in our lives. And for those in extreme poverty, the mobile phone has been equally, if not more, transformative.

Happy Reading,

J.W. Gant