Hi Art, if you are interested in a serious discussion with OLPC, rather than just about OLPC, their open forum might be a better place than Python edu-sig.
See http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo You might even get a response ;-) - Bert - Am Jan 17, 2007 um 15:15 schrieb Arthur: > > Hate being the grunch. I hope the OLPC accomplishes everything it > sets > out to and more. > > What I suspect is that - having learnt something about complexity and > dynamic systems from computers - that the most profound effects of the > initiative will be unintended ones. Let's hope they are mostly good. > > Particularly given this, I don't understand the embedded need, as part > of the process, to the compromise on some basic ideas - normally > called > science. > > We - on edu-sig - were trying to form some consensus on the need for > empiricism around these issues. > > And in his own way, by my reading of events, my erstwhile friend Kirby > was trying to suggest something along these lines during his > participation at the Shuttleworth summit. Or - maybe more what he was > suggesting - is that until there is empricial evidence that leads > us in > a certain and clear direction, best encourage the diversity of ideas. > > OLPC seem to represent very much a counter vision. > > Seems to me the OLPC has counter ideas on both empiricism *and* the > diversity of ideas. > > Here is Nicholas Negroponte's reaction to the idea of bringing > empricism > to the party. > > http://www.olpcnews.com/implementation/plan/ > implementation_miracle.html > > So there will not be consensus, apparently, > > > > Art > > > > _______________________________________________ > Edu-sig mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
