Mitch Bradley wrote: > No, I'm saying that giving laptops to all the world's children is a Good > Thing, > and worthy of being called an "education project", even if they don't > have the > world's friendliest UI or free software. And the reason for that is because > the web is so immensely valuable. > > The laptops are even more wonderful with a child-friendly UI, loads of fun > activities, and a non-proprietary software stack. But in the steady > state, the > web is the high-order bit, sufficient to qualify as education in and of > itself. > Mitch, I completely disagree with you on this. Browsing the web is useful but doing so without being able to seamlessly communicate with people that are in your "proximity" is a poor goal to reach. We should be thinking bigger than just giving kids a windows box and ask them to sign up to Facebook so that they can communicate with their friends.
Pol -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel