I just think that the One Laptop Per Child program is amazing. Brilliant technology, great scheme. I think that I might contribute to this, as a solution to my donation dilemma.
NY Times technology reporter David Pogue gives this nice intro to the OLPC:
Kevin Rudd eat your heart out!
What is disappointing, however, is that the OLPC has made some of the big technology players jealous. Microsoft and others are scared that they're losing potential customers in the developing world, and so they are developing ultra cheap laptops of their own running cheap cutdown versions of XP for these regions. Terrible. It's bad enough that the first world is flooded with crappy virus infested Windows boxes. Why inflict that on kiddies in developing countries?
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
The One Laptop Per Child Program
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2 comments:
I thought 'one laptop per child' was part of the anti-obesity drive.
Wouldn't it be better to give them all a football or lessons on how to converse face-to-face? (He says, via computer. OK, OK...)
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