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Cheers, - Andreas kirby urner wrote: > > So I just viewed this segment, mostly an interview of Negroponte with > Leslie Stahl: > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/09/60minutes/main13546.shtml , but > with lots of footage from Cambodia, plus significant footage of (a) > Negroponte > telling lecture hall that Intel was bad (b) Intel defending itself in > the person of > its CEO. > > For an intro to a big topic, I thought this was good overview, and 60 > Minutes > always needs a twisted plot i.e. a bad guy, so I don't begrudge dwelling > on the > private industry threat. My Project Renaissance model builds in the > idea of > test pilot nonprofit idealists like Negroponte paving the way for > commercial > imitators -- surely this pattern is repeated over and over (used to be the > military was the biggest guinea pig, for health care innovations > especially). > > Negroponte himself comes across as a class act, handsome, well spoken, > an idealist we can love. So the XO uses AMD chips, so what? > > I'm glad the idea of massive computer power spreading to the world's > underprivileged is being presented as pretty much a fait accompli. Even > if Intel is getting in the way, it's doing so by embracing the vision. > I hope > the XO really flies big time though. Wouldn't bother me to see it fattening > a bottom line or two -- the investors could be XO-using entrepreneurs in > the developing world, doing the hard work of keeping the pipeline moving. > > Kirby > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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
