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If Gandhi had had a video phone

This is a pretty striking ad by Telecom Italia. (via Joi Ito/Mikhail Esteves

It’s a nice ad, but life rarely works out as well as that, and we overestimate the capability of technology to solve human problems. There might not have been video links, but there was radio during World War II, and it didn’t stop the war.

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