Krimel, I'm enthusiastic about your entusiasm. I too, got on board the internet train early. I also got involved with community networking and tried to accomplish the one-laptop-per-child goals with old apple powerbooks and the Chernobyl Children's Project. I didn't go very far with it, but I did get a direct dial-up connection between California and Belarus for a bit.
When the real one laptop per child project came along, I was glad to see it. But there was one aspect of the whole project that was being overlooked - engineers are hardware junkies. They focused all their geekery on the machine and nobody really pays much attention to what goes on the machine. I believe the greatest potential lies in training children. The greatest waste is unused processing power of the human brain. I used to tell people who didn't understand the internet that the magic wasn't in the ability of networking machines, the magic is the ability to network human brains. John -- ------------ The self is a point along a dynamic continuum, evolving toward Quality by Choice. ------------ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
