Then he moved to India, to lead the Microsoft lab, and 
  observed a phenomenon that he would come to believe was 
  universal: “Technology’s primary effect is to amplify human
  forces.” When computers entered rural schools, for instance,
  guess who held the mouse? Upper-caste boys. 
  Technology wasn’t an intrinsic leveler or a bulldozer to 
  archaic structures: It just gave people new, improved tools
  to be lovely or horrible to each other in all the old ways.

I don't know what to say but that's just gut-wrenching. All the high-altitude "Loon" balloons [1] and lightweight "Aquila" drones [2] won't make much of a difference if it were up to the local warlord in Central Africa or strongman in India to decide who gets to live in shacks with uninterrupted power, much less "who holds the mouse". Now, does it?

If true change is desired, tech powerhouses like Google & FB cannot but develop a political will to address the chronic root causes behind the problems of technological disenfranchisement, among the world's downtrodden.

[1] http://www.google.com/loon/how/

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/26/technology/drones-beaming-...