Am I the only one who thinks of "WKRP in Cincinnati" when it comes to dropping free things out of helicopters? At least Nicholas didn't say "it's like turkeys falling out of the sky..."
--Tom On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Rahul Banerjee <banerjee at cs.washington.edu>wrote: > 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) > > _______________________________________________ > > change mailing list > > change at change.washington.edu > > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > > > _______________________________________________ > change mailing list > change at change.washington.edu > http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/private/change/attachments/20111104/2994ee54/attachment.html>
