This led to an under-developed Myanmar, far behind its neighbouring nations. And borders that were closed to mass immigration and emigration. So how did Asia’s rising star end up with decades of economic stagnation?Ī coup. In Asia’s high-school yearbook of 1961, Myanmar was voted most likely to become fully industrialised. With an educated workforce and well-run economic and legal systems. It was - and in some areas still is - a series of ongoing insurgencies that began in 1948, shortly after the country gained independence from the United Kingdom that same year.īut even with the insurgencies, Myanmar of the early 1960s was the largest exporter of rice in the world.
And about the longest civil war in the history of humankind. About the views from Mandalay Hill as my desktop background. When I think about Myanmar I think about the iconic hot-air balloons rising over the Bagan temples. And why understanding the local culture and user behaviour is, in many cases, more important that just providing language translations. Which really should be the case study for why international standards are a really big deal. Until I was investigating the impact of one country not using the international standard for character encoding. Or how the Wingdings fonts - the most fascinating thing to hit my family computer before Full Tilt! Pinball - worked and more importantly, why we needed 3 of them? How an app that’s created in Estonia can be used by someone in Canada? How a blog post written on a Macbook can be read on a Samsung Galaxy S7? Have you ever thought about what goes into making text appear on your screen?
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