On 2/10/05, Parker Rossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope the major computer companies will in time consent for it to be > manufactured in the developing world. I suppose Negroponte knows about > developments in India, and hopes that mass production can make it > cheaper.
I don't think it will be a problem with manufacturing these devices or their evolutionary descendents in developing countries. Check where your cell phone and its components were made. The point of the post was not to herald the arrival of a device which was to finally get ICT's to the masses but to point out that technology goes through a well understood process of development and I suspect that we will find smart technologies which far exceed today's computers printed on a piece of material that can be folded up and tossed when we are through with it. I think Sam's post hits the nail on the head when he points out that part of the problem lies in the NGO community and its alphabet variances and, I might add, also, with the pundits, many in the academic community, and policy analysts, who default to technology such as computers as if these would close both the digital and economic divides rather than just adding another consumer product to a neoclassical model of economic development and social change. thoughts? tom abeles ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
