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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by ekianjo on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:06PM (#23559059)
Rwanda is a very interesting player in Africa. They are experimenting with many technologies that the West can only dream of. They use drone deliveries for emergency medicines as well with good success, between plants that manufacture them and hospitals dozens of kilometers away.
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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by pnako on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:36PM (#23559566)
In the west we're still primitives, using infrastructure like roads and supply chain logistics to achieve the same thing.
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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by ekianjo on Friday June 19, 2020 @08:07PM (#23580244)
That's the point: they don't have resources to have roads like in the West, and they decided to be open about doing it differently.
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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by Google234 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:21PM (#23559150)
I highly doubt your second sentence is true
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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by kolikotime on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:25PM (#23559169)
They do have a very proactive government that deploys experimental technology in highly public pilots. That you doubt it’s not true is purely because it’s an African country.
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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by bobbydroptables on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:31PM (#23559217)
Maybe what he's getting at is that the technologies the west "can't dream of" were invented in the west. Drones, for example. The west doesn't use drones to deliver medicine because it has very well developed infrastructure to deliver medicine.

It is cool Rwanda is doing this but I would guess the west has dreamed of drone deliveries of things and decided that its current system is ok.

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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by Google234 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:34PM (#23559234)
Some of techs I dream about are cheap personalized immunotherapies, batteries made out of simple materials with high densities, fusion, artificial general intelligences that are smarter than us...
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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by BurningFrog on Thursday June 18, 2020 @12:11AM (#23559728)
Sounds more like Wakanda!
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