# Which new tech has impressed you the most over the last 5 years?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 1, 2023, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-new-tech-has-impressed-you-the-most-over-the-last-5-years/984884 "2023-06-01T18:11:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-new-tech-has-impressed-you-the-most-over-the-last-5-years/984884/35 "2023-06-03T06:59:27Z")

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> Starlink. Global, inexpensive, high speed and low latency internet will be a revolution in the 3rd world and rural areas.

Repeating [the wrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-going-to-be-a-problem-in-25-years-but-people-are-choosing-to-ignore-now/979356/159) doesn’t make it right.

Just going to repeat a question I’ve asked before, that got no response:

> [@What’s going to be a problem in 25 years, but people are choosing to ignore now?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-going-to-be-a-problem-in-25-years-but-people-are-choosing-to-ignore-now/979356/153):
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> where are the remote poor in the Global South getting $600 initially and $100/month?

Yes, Starlink is great for _affluent_ ruralites like **enipla**. So you got that part right.

However, I do appreciate the irony of someone lauding supposed cutting-edge tech still using that dinosaur term, “3rd world”

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