Another write-up:
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/the-sods-must-be-crazy-olpc-to-drop-tablets-from-helicopters-to-isolated-villages.ars
And of course, tons of comments... my favourites:
"Imagine the smiles on the children's faces when they find out
instead of something boring like food or a Malaria vaccine it's a
slow-ass Linux tablet. The whyPad."
"Just hope no one ever tries something like this in an area where
toy-shaped land-mines or cluster bombs have been deployed. Pick the
right pretty shiny, you get a nifty tool/tool. Pick the wrong one, you
lose your arm."
"Here is another variation: select some blue collar areas in the
first world countries, drop these same tablets there, loaded with
books about astrophysics, quantum mechanics, biology and nanotech.
Come back a year later and see if there is any PHD emerges
spontaneously."
--
Rahul
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa at gmail.com> wrote:
> "We will literally take [OLPC] tablets and drop them out of
> helicopters...When I say I drop out of the helicopters, I mean
> it...it's like a Coke bottle falling out of the sky..."
> -- Nicholas Negroponte at Open Mobile Summit
>
> pc mag article - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395763,00.asp
>
> olpc news commentary -
> http://www.olpcnews.com/people/negroponte/xo_helicopter_deployments_nich.html
>
> video of talk -
> http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/06/social-innovation-summit-2011-part-1.html
> (comments are at 1 hr mark)
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