[OLPC-Chicago] [Edu-sig] OLPC on 60 Minutes

[Scott Van Den Plas]

It's also up on google video, ad free... for now:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1049354722405908055&hl=en


On 5/21/07, Andrew Harrington <aharrin at luc.edu> wrote:
>
> From edu-sig.  good summary by Kirby, PR in the big-time for OLPC.  Try
> the link.  You just have to sit through a 30 second ad.
>
> Mention of negotiations with school districts in this country.
>
> Andy
>
> kirby urner wrote:
> >
> > So I just viewed this segment, mostly an interview of Negroponte with
> > Leslie Stahl:
> > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/09/60minutes/main13546.shtml ,
> but
> > with lots of footage from Cambodia, plus significant footage of (a)
> > Negroponte
> > telling lecture hall that Intel was bad (b) Intel defending itself in
> > the person of
> > its CEO.
> >
> > For an intro to a big topic, I thought this was good overview, and 60
> > Minutes
> > always needs a twisted plot i.e. a bad guy, so I don't begrudge
> > dwelling on the
> > private industry threat.  My Project Renaissance model builds in the
> > idea of
> > test pilot nonprofit idealists like Negroponte paving the way for
> > commercial
> > imitators -- surely this pattern is repeated over and over (used to be
> > the
> > military was the biggest guinea pig, for health care innovations
> > especially).
> >
> > Negroponte himself comes across as a class act, handsome, well spoken,
> > an idealist we can love.  So the XO uses AMD chips, so what?
> >
> > I'm glad the idea of massive computer power spreading to the world's
> > underprivileged is being presented as pretty much a fait accompli.  Even
> > if Intel is getting in the way, it's doing so by embracing the
> > vision.  I hope
> > the XO really flies big time though.  Wouldn't bother me to see it
> > fattening
> > a bottom line or two -- the investors could be XO-using entrepreneurs in
> > the developing world, doing the hard work of keeping the pipeline
> moving.
> >
> > Kirby
> >
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