Vivek Wadhwa Shows Off the Aakash: A $20 Tablet From India That Will Connect Students to the Internet for $2 Per Month

Thanks to devices like the second generation Aakash, 3 Billion additional people are going to come online in the next decade. The revolution in access to information will be (is) unprecedented. That change - coupled with the revolution in manufacturing (made possible by recent advances in robotics and artificial intelligence) - seems likely to shift economic power in unpredictable ways. The cultural, social and political changes made possible by 21st century digital technologies are just beginning. Hang on.