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Assignment:

In the book The New Digital Age by former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, it states:

Hundreds of millions of people today are living the lives of their grandparents, in countries where life expectancy is less than sixty years, or even fifty in some places, and there is no guarantee that their political and macroeconomic circumstances will improve dramatically anytime soon. What is new in their lives and their futures is connectivity. Critically, they have the chance to bypass earlier technologies, like dial-up modems, and go directly to highspeed wireless connections, which means the transformations that connectivity brings will occur even more quickly than they did in the developed world.

The introduction of mobile phones is far more transformative than most people in modern countries realize. As people come online, they will quite suddenly have access to almost all the world's information in one place in their own language. This will even be true for an illiterate Maasai cattle herder in the Serengeti, whose native tongue, Maa, is not written-he'll be able to verbally inquire about the day's market prices and crowd-source the whereabouts of any nearby predators, receiving a spoken answer from his device in reply. Mobile phones will allow formerly isolated people to connect with others very far away and very different from themselves. On the economic front, they'll find ways to use the new tools at their disposal to enlarge their businesses, make them more efficient and maximize their profits, as the fisherwomen did much more locally with their basic phones.

Read the above text a few times with your Postcolonial Theorist lenses until you comprehend what Schmidt says. Then answer the following:

1) What Postcolonial Hegemony is present in the text? Describe who, what, and how.

2) Who is the Colonizer and who is the Colonized? Why?