At #DWebSummit, @nicopace notes that "people in remote communities want to connect with each other, not necessarily to the internet".
@nicopace There is a unique value in keeping these communities "disconnected", to preserve their cultures against the monoculture on the internet.

This is the opposite strategy of what Zuckerberg wants to build in the Global South.

The business model of the Internet is intermediation.

Google Duplex (Google Assistant capable of making calls on your behalf) is branded as an "assistant" but it's in the long run a middleman: something that both consumer and producer will consider a necessary evil. Consumers will consider the assistant necessary because they'll be dependent on it, either because they forgot how to research info on their own, or because they are time deprived.

Computer Science and why it's necessary even for web developers

I know that in some countries a degree in CS is expensive or unattainable, and that some companies do unnecessary algorithm interviews.

This thread is not about degrees or interviews, it's about CS itself. CS is important because of general concepts and patterns that you will find everywhere when programming.

It's vital to have some knowledge which is *indirectly* applied.

E.g. trees, graphs, data structures, graph search (breadth-first, depth-first), languages