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When poor internet connection threatens family bonds

My daughter lives across the ocean and video calls are our only connection but the wifi is always cutting out and I feel like I am losing precious time with her.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technological inequality can create additional barriers to maintaining relationships that already require technological mediation.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with African philosophy of technology — Ubuntu and the examined tool?”

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