http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte
... founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Theisen Sent: Monday, January 01, 2007 4:15 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [OT] Money down a rat hole On Monday 01 January 2007 01:55, Michael Madigan wrote: > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070101/ap_on_hi_te/hundred_dollar_laptop_2 > > What a worthless piece of crap this is. Hi Michael! Beyond that, it is deliberately worthless! Consider this quote: Nicholas Negroponte, who launched the project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab two years ago before spinning One Laptop into a separate nonprofit, said he deliberately wanted to avoid giving children computers they might someday use in an office. "In fact, one of the saddest but most common conditions in elementary school computer labs (when they exist in the developing world), is the children are being trained to use Word, Excel and PowerPoint," Negroponte wrote in an e-mail interview. "I consider that criminal, because children should be making things, communicating, exploring, sharing, not running office automation tools." For God's sake, whatever you do, *don't* even *think* about teaching them to *work*. Who the hell is Negroponte, anyway? Has anyone ever heard of him other than this? -- Regards, Pete http://www.pete-theisen.com/ [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
