My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to have this piece of vaporware come into being. The limiting factor in bringing computing to the poor masses on this planet is the high cost of connecting them to the Internet. Even wireless service is beyond the reach of rural villages without massive government help, not likely to come about where it is needed most. Negroponte should now focus OLPC's attention on connectivity cost, not on making claims (which I doubt will come to fruition) about ultra low cost tablet devices. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Sameer Verma <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sverma@sfsu.edu">sverma@sfsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu" target="_blank">bmschwar@fas.harvard.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html" target="_blank">http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html</a><br>
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"It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof,<br>
half the thickness of an iPhone and use less than a watt of power, despite<br>
an 8-gigaherz processor. The price: an unprecedented $75."<br>
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Well, that's cool.<br>
<br>
Deciphering OLPC press releases sometimes feels like I'm playing chess<br>
with Picasso, and he keeps breaking the rules, and I can't tell whether<br>
this is some kind of art or he's just cheating.<br>
<br>
--Ben<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>More than anything I find this quote amusing:<br><br>"We don't necessarily need to build it," Negroponte told Forbes. "We just need to threaten to build it." <br clear="all">
<br>I suppose we could threaten to code the OS, threaten to support it, threaten to create content... :-)<br><br>Hey, its Festivus. Air out the grievances!!!<br><font color="#888888"><br>Sameer<br>
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