At 10:02 AM -0700 5/29/05, Dr. Steve Eskow wrote:
If the Simputer is a superior product, and mass producing it will
dramatically lower its price, the Simputer firm might emulate Negroponte and
insist on mass orders.
"Insist"? How?
How much good would it do to set a date ceartain - as Earth Day has -
and make a 24 hour, round the clock, round the world - effort to
focus on this call? An event designed to engage grant writers,
pundits, distance educators, distance trainers, radio stations,
humanitarian relief agencies, the UN, appropriate government
officials at high levels.
Is there a better way that picking a date certain - say six months
from now? - and then putting our collective shoulders together to
make sure that a zillion people hear of the Simputer - and cause the
ordering in the millions?
John Hibbs
http://www.bfranklin.edu/johnhibbs
P.S. Sam Johnson says that nothing concentrates the mind like a
hanging. I say that nothing concentrates the mind like an Big Event
with a date certain. What else will turn "insist" into a collective
action?
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