technology

Contrary to popular belief, Belize, despite being a third world country, has technology. Living in a first world country (as most of you do) you are used to having your lives enriched by the invisible hands of technology. Here in Belize, technology is ever present but never invisible! Let's begin with CD's and DVD's. We have them. All of them. We even get the DVD's of new movies ... before the movies are out of the theatre. Yes, that's right, Belize has always been and is still a country of pirates. We have stores full of pirated everything from CD's and DVD's to game systems and games. The biggest and best we've found is. CDPlus in Belize City. That's right CDPlus. Same name; same logo; same movies and music just with photocopied jackets. Pirated technology continues through the entertainment field. It too us a long time to figure out why our TV channels tended to change over time. Now we know. The cable company pirates the cable. Every now and then the companies change the codes and some guy in some cubicle somewhere spends the next little while trying to break the code. Sometimes he gets it and sometimes he finds the code for a new channel. Just like Forrest Gump's life, our TV viewing is like a box of chocolates - we never know what we're going to get. Need internet? Stick an antenna out in the sea where it can grab those net waves and bounce them back to you. The best of Belizean technology comes when we go to the bank or other upper-scale stores. You know, the ones with automatic doors. The automatic doors in Belize work like a dream. They are well dressed security guards that open the door when they see you coming or going. So that's the upshot of Belizean technology in the 21st century.