It is interesting to note, however, that more young people in Japan and South Korea access the internet via cell phone than via PC.
>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:digitaldivide- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alfred Bork >Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:20 PM >To: 'The Digital Divide Network discussion group' >Subject: RE: [DDN] Creating the $100 Laptop > >It is, I believe, dubious that everyone will be using palmtop computing. >The >small screen makes it undesirable for many applications. > >Until there is reliable evidence, gathered through careful experimentation, >I doubt that excellent learning, for example, can take place on small >screens. But I do not think that hardware in any form will, alone, solve >our >major worldwide problems. > > >Alfred >University of California, Irvine >Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Taran >Rampersad >Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 1:13 AM >To: The Digital Divide Network discussion group >Subject: Re: [DDN] Creating the $100 Laptop > >Executive Director wrote: > >>I don't think we have to create the $100 laptop, and reinvent the wheel. >>We already have the $100 refurbished PII laptop. All we need to do is >>distribute them. >> >>Mike >>************************* >>Michael F. Pitsch >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >Yup. But by the time they are distributed, everyone will be using >palmtop computing. So the real thing to do if we want to bridge the >divide is to jump the laptop gap in the first place. Bypass the desktop >and laptops wherever we can. Honestly, that's the only way, I think. > >-- >Taran Rampersad > >_______________________________________________ >DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list >[email protected] >http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide >To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
