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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: The Future of Mobility: Expert Panel Discussion [Watch (HLS stream): The Future of Mobility: Expert Panel Discussion](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/YfK7xBF0.m3u8) (4:20)  _Published 2012-09-21. TIME Senior Editor Jeffery Kluger moderates a panel experts discussing the future of wireless and mobile technology as it relates to child education, micro-finance and banking, and internet penetration across disparate populations_ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:27 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [The Federal Deficit – A Finance Panel](/video/70mZyTRy/):55 ### The Federal Deficit – A Finance Panel [Women And Success: Panel Discussion](/video/bUJYz6y2/) ### Women And Success: Panel Discussion [The Future of Mobility](/video/VJkleT8i/):19 ### The Future of Mobility --- ## Transcript [ SOUND ] The overwhelming majority of countries we polled, the parents in those countries, said they felt that mobile tech was not a distraction to their children. Paying attention to their studies. The only exception to that was South Korea. Where parents said overwhelmingly, 62 % that it was a distraction. And they control access accordingly. South Korea perhaps no coincidence happens to be eating our lunch when it comes to academic performance by kids. Do they know something we don't? You know I see my kids and how they use their mobile devices and they play a lot of games you know, they waste a lot of time. But you do have to remember that we're, we're talking about countries that , it's hard to generalize because the parts of the world that I focus on that are developing countries. You know, if they're starting from a different point, that the access to information, what Ray was just talking about, this access to data, you know, in many cases, they don't have access to data. What the poll picked up was precisely that. It's this sort of, unleashing of access to information. Right. In countries where people simply never had it before. And so parents are seeing that and seeing their children having access to this information in ways that they never did. And it's unleashing enormous potential if you've traveled throughout Africa. And you see the impact. Where I saw it the most was really in those countries where you're seeing it being truly transformative and I think that's what you're getting back in the pool. I, you know, I see it in my, you know, at home. My kids ask me questions, and there are some I don't know. [ CROSSTALK ]. Believe it or not. And I, I'm right there, I'm able to look it up. Look it up, yeah. Yeah. And be able to have a much more informed conversation on about what they're learning. Yeah, exactly. Definitely. We found that most people, here we see 63 % in India say that having a mobile phone or a mobile device allows them to get more work done. We've seen this in all countries. On the other hand, we also all have a fixed number of minutes in our days and every minute we spend, working is a minute we're not spending with our family, or doing other things that don't involve income generation. How can we address this fact that, that, that mobiles, while they make us more productive are also very much a time suck. I think there's all sorts of infrastructure in our society that saves us time. And if you're growing up or living in a rural place in a developing country, that infrastructure's not there. And there's a lot of things you do that waste a lot of time that aren't necessarily work. I was just in Lima, Peru. And I visited a group of people that had to walk two hours just to go to a bank. When they got to the bank, they'd have to wait in a line that was often up to an hour. It's very, very time consuming. And it leads to a culture where people can't safe. Cool thing is, one, one thing I'm excited about with mobile technology is, it's possible for the first time for these people to have a bank account Right there on their phone. Get the money into their phone in their own hometown and keep it there, or send it to someone that they, that needs it or even send it to the bank to save that money. So it's a real benefit, that can enable people to actually save time. And spend more time, hopefully, with their families. Depew internet. A group put out a study, about a year or so ago, about adoption rates in the African- American community as well as the Latino community, and found a couple of really interesting things. One was that in the African- American community, there was a higher and faster degree of adoption. Of the utilization of mobile technology and, that, that became a primary source for accessing the internet. People seek access and people have aspirations. And so if they have an opportunity to use to leapfrog, to use a device, to get there, that's what they're gonna do. If you give people access. There are going to run toward it because people wanna join the economic mainstream. They wanna do financial transactions. They wanna do business. So, this opens up enormous opportunities for both the commercial side and also social innovations. Now you have populations that have these devices. 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