[OLPC Bolivia] [squeakland] [IAEP] Plan Ceibal y/and General Electric

[Chunka Mui]

On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Alan Kay <alan.nemo en yahoo.com> wrote:

> GE is being congratulated for recognizing that the iPhone and iPad are pretty good ideas and technological realizations. But isn't this like the congratulations Bill Gates got for finally recognizing the Internet (about 25 years after it had started working)?
> 
> Seems as though Apple had a lot more on the ball than Bill Gates or GE here (they used to do computing in the 60s, but couldn't see what it was).
> 
> And most of the ideas at Apple (and for personal computing and the Internet) came from research funding that no company or government has been willing to do since 1982.


Alan -- Could you say more about this point?  Surely there's been tons of CS and IT funding since '82, both govt funding to universities and massive research budgets at msft, hp, 

Regards,
Chunka


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> Alan
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