The situation with the explosions of pagers, radios, phones, and even home appliances in Lebanon has many dimensions. I will focus on the three most important ones.
Modern and Western approaches to science, technology, and innovation have often seen Indigenous forms of production as inefficient, unsustainable, and ultimately inferior (Power 2018).
In the case of network technologies (technology) - Google, twitter, youtube, facebook, instagram, etc. - we see a very important phenomenon: they do oppose Russia not because they depend on the U.S. government. They do not depend on it.