About near-zero connectivity cost, i came across the caua project
http://www.projectcaua.org/ OLPC, and/or others could begin to support these kind of ideas. Rafael Ortiz On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Stanley Sokolow <overb...@earthlink.net> wrote: > My personal experience tells me that it wouldn't help to have this piece of > vaporware come into being. The limiting factor in bringing computing to > the poor masses on this planet is the high cost of connecting them to the > Internet. Even wireless service is beyond the reach of rural villages > without massive government help, not likely to come about where it is needed > most. Negroponte should now focus OLPC's attention on connectivity cost, > not on making claims (which I doubt will come to fruition) about ultra low > cost tablet devices. > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Sameer Verma <sve...@sfsu.edu> wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Benjamin M. Schwartz >> <bmsch...@fas.harvard.edu> wrote: >>> >>> >>> http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/22/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html >>> >>> "It aims to make its tablet PC highly durable, all plastic, waterproof, >>> half the thickness of an iPhone and use less than a watt of power, >>> despite >>> an 8-gigaherz processor. The price: an unprecedented $75." >>> >>> Well, that's cool. >>> >>> Deciphering OLPC press releases sometimes feels like I'm playing chess >>> with Picasso, and he keeps breaking the rules, and I can't tell whether >>> this is some kind of art or he's just cheating. >>> >>> --Ben >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Devel mailing list >>> Devel@lists.laptop.org >>> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >>> >> >> More than anything I find this quote amusing: >> >> "We don't necessarily need to build it," Negroponte told Forbes. "We just >> need to threaten to build it." >> >> I suppose we could threaten to code the OS, threaten to support it, >> threaten to create content... :-) >> >> Hey, its Festivus. Air out the grievances!!! >> >> Sameer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devel mailing list >> Devel@lists.laptop.org >> http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
