Friedman anecdote

Thomas Friedman tells a story in his "Hot, Flat, and Crowded" of visiting a doctor's clinic in a remote Indian village where an old man was hooked up to an EKG machine with a video monitor so a Dr. in Mumbai could read the EKG. Friedman thought it was great use of high tech until he looked in the corner and saw that the entire apparatus was powered by 12 jerry-rigged car batteries because the village did not have reliable electricity.