Bonnie Bracey Sutton writes: > I worry about extraordinary resources like those at the Exploratorium, > and at www.eotepic, and the use of and understanding of more than the > internet. Like the Forum on Nanotechnology, or > http://www.exploratorium.edu/nanoscape/forums.html.
Hi Bonnie, This is all awesome and you are truly heading in fantastic directions - but the context of discussion is $100 laptops distributed to school students in less developed countries. I doubt that most of these kids (or their teachers) will be diving into nanotechnology or the Lucas Foundation on first receipt and comprehension of a hand-crank laptop. I also doubt the proposed Wifi mesh network will eventuate within decades if at all (I live in rural Australia where we have had WiFi and Mesh technologies for more than a decade, yet the reality of coverage extending beyond 1 or 2% of the landmass is still just a pipe-dream - the vast majority of Negroponte's machines will be offline tools, not online - hence the relevance or otherwise of online content will be meaningless to these kids and their teachers for many years to come. Cheers, Don _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org 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.
