On Nov 19, 2007 4:02 PM, pauric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Yeah, but we gotta start *somewhere*. The OLPC is at the tail end of a development process that has been going on for at least two decades, if not longer. The Kindle and other currently available ereaders are to this technology what the Osborne I is to the OLPC. IMO the biggest payoff will come not from the devices themselves, but from the digitization of books. We need devices like the Kindle in order to kickstart this process into high gear. > Also, I dont see how an e-reader > helps someone who cant read or write... laptops & teachers address > that problem. I agree with you (though I don't know about the value of about laptops in this scenario) ... still, I think the ereaders have a huge role to play once literacy is a part of the equation. Cheers, -- Jorge ________________________________________________________________ *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
