Robert :"With regard to the environment, the printing process, ink, paper, bleaching the paper, etc., is hugely wasteful. "
Probably not the forum for this but paper is both recyclable & renewable. Plastic (oil), copper, NiCad and all the other ingredients in a modern device produced here: <http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/gallery/2007/jul/18/china.pollution?picture=330216030> are marginally renewable and hugely wasteful in the sense that we dont know where to put this crap once its obsolete... paper.. I cant take it to the outhouse (o; Carbon offsetting your next book is a nice touch. Jorge, completely agree with sentiment on enabling the developing world. The OLPC project goes a some way to addressing those issues. Until Amazon offer a device to the developing world (and make it 802.11 not evdo) for everyone sold here, as the OLPC project has done, then I dont buy the your argument. Also, I dont see how an e-reader helps someone who cant read or write... laptops & teachers address that problem. This is a $400 closed device that will get cut by about $100 in the new year. Go to version 2 in colour sometime in the middle of next year and then slowly fade in to the annals of niche devices that had a beloved following but which never really caught on. This thing has Newton written all over it. Spend that $400 on a good bike and you'll do the world of good for mind, body & environment (or $250 on a crappy bike and buy some kid a laptop). Apologies for the off-topic rant. Kind regards - pauric ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
