Interesting to think that countries less well off than the U.S. often leap ahead in the use of technology because the do not have the baggage of current installed technology to deal with. The Economist talks about Croatia having developed a way to purchase and display train tickets on a mobile phone. The inspector can view the ticket on your phone’s screen instead of having expensive ‘readers’ (machines used to talk to the phone) installed at all the terminals.
This baggage can effect many things. Norway has developed stand alone Hydrogen gas stations powered by solar cells. You can place these things almost anywhere, almost like coke machines. How will the “baggage” of our installed gas stations and the institutions behind them help or hinder our progress towards this energy?
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