While we're debating the Wikipedia as part of the One Laptop Per Child project, might I wonder if you would be pro-Wikipedia if you knew it would replace books in schools?
Last week, Thailand's Caretaker Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra announced his country will test 530 laptop prototypes in October and November. In the press releases Prime Minister Thaksin is quoted as saying: "Each elementary school child will receive a computer that the government will buy for them, free of charge, instead of books, because books will be found and can be read on computers'' Am I the only one who thinks that its crazy to exclude books, the traditional source of knowledge for the last thousand years or so, for flashy new & untested laptops, even if they have the Wikipedia? http://www.olpcnews.com/commentary/olpc_news/olpc_to_replace_book.html Wayan wayan at olpcnews.com http://www.olpcnews.com _______________________________________________ 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.
