The First World Is Becoming the Third World, Not Vice Versa
As a student of history and anthropology I've learned that in general societies tend to go through four types of economic revolutions, those successively being hunter-gatherer, agrarian, industrial and information, though hunter-gatherer, being that's where it all started, may be more of our natural disposition than all of the others. Anyway the general understanding is that you have to successively get through one stage in order to, more or less naturally, move onto the next. However this logic does not hold true in countries like Ghana. Ghana never went through an industrial revolution and to this day is and likely always will be mainly agricultural, but the Gateway to Africa has by and large fully entered the information age . No, I don't anticipate computer usage in Ghana to reach the level it has in the West, nor do I think Ghana will ever evolve into a primarily postmodern, information-based economy like America. However more aspiring Ghanaian entrepreneurs...