SCPL3606 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Leapfrogging, Telemedicine, Medieval Commune

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Social Policy
• Course: SCPL3606
• Professor: all

Document Summary

: the shrinking of space, and the reduction of the time required by a. Post questions on forum and listen to lecture. Time-space compression wide range of processes, brought about by changes in transportation and communi- cation technologies advanced mainly by capitalist corporations. Bypassing twentieth century fixed-line phone systems and going directly to twenty-first century mobile phone technology is one of the most common examples of leapfrogging in the developing world. For example, in bangladesh there are barely more than one million land-line phone connections in a nation of 155 million people. However, there are already 100 million cell-phone users. : the stretching of social relations across space and time brought. : developing nations bypassing earlier technologies and adopting more advanced. In contrast, few of these tech- nologies flow to less developed, southern countries, they are used there less intensively, and there are relatively few trained people there capable of conducting the tests and interpreting the results.