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Re:CircuitLab - online schematic editor & circuit simulator by phodo on Saturday April 28, 2012 @06:18PM (#3904299)
+1, like so many other things these days... access is so critical: a) in a developing country, access = access to education tools (like stanford's online courses, udemy, etc.) b) in developed countries, access = access to tools that can serve as "force multipliers" in terms of enabling creativity, understanding, low cost entrepreneurship

tl;dr: we are living in the Age of Access.

Re:CircuitLab - online schematic editor & circuit simulator by nitrogen on Sunday April 29, 2012 @02:32AM (#3905310)
The next steps are access to capital and access to connections, or innovations that make social connections and large investments obsolete. Places like YC and TechStars help with these for a small subset of the population, so we're off to a decent start.