[Weekender] Rethinking who tech serves: from assisted dressing to off-grid drinking water
- Source
- The Korea Herald - Business
- Source link
- https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10825657
- Published
- 2026-08-01 16:00:02
- Discovered by ProcIntel
- 2026-08-01 07:56:22
- Category
- Procurement & Supply Chain News
- Geography
- South Korea
- Organisations
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- Review status
- Pending
- Record type
- REAL
Summary
Technology’s brightest light too often bathes those already abundantly served. The newest phone gets a sharper camera, the already capable car inches toward autonomy, the fridge learns another trick. Yet for someone who cannot lift an arm to put on a jacket, or for a child living beside a vast but undrinkable lake, the question is simpler and more urgent: Who does technology serve? Two professors at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology are each attempting to answer that questio
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