Walter leaving and shift to XP.

[Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos]

Mitch Bradley wrote:
> No, I'm saying that giving laptops to all the world's children is a Good 
> Thing,
> and worthy of being called an "education project", even if they don't 
> have the
> world's friendliest UI or free software.  And the reason for that is because
> the web is so immensely valuable.
>
> The laptops are even more wonderful with a child-friendly UI, loads of fun
> activities, and a non-proprietary software stack.  But in the steady 
> state, the
> web is the high-order bit, sufficient to qualify as education in and of 
> itself.
>   
Mitch, I completely disagree with you on this. Browsing the web is 
useful but doing so without being able to seamlessly communicate with 
people that are in your "proximity" is a poor goal to reach. We should 
be thinking bigger than just giving kids a windows box and ask them to 
sign up to Facebook so that they can communicate with their friends.

Pol

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Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos
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Viral Communications
MIT Media Lab
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