It's been a weird week for the One Laptop Per Child project, and I'm
surprised we didn't discuss it here.
First was the news that:
Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child organization admitted
defeat in its effort to sell millions of open-source computers in
Asia, Africa and Latin America by joining with Microsoft to load
Windows XP onto its green and white laptops. The decision marks the
end of the effort to spread Constructionist learning pedagogy—learning
by doing—to tens of millions of poor children in villages around the
world.
<http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2008/05/the_end_of_the.html
>
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7094695.stm>
Now comes the news of OLPC 2.0. And check it out: dual touchscreens.
No keyboard, just two touchscreens that fold together like a book:
<http://gizmodo.com/392060/olpc-xo-laptop-20-has-dual-touchscreens-looks-amazing-and-future+y
>
<http://blog.laptopmag.com/first-look-olpc-xo-generation-20>
Is this the end of the Sugar UI? (See the previous IxDA discussion on
it: <http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=23928> )
Dan
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