Hello List,
Some food for thoughts: Was hearing the other day on the progress of the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) initiative from the MIT Media Lab. The plan is to develop a $100 rugged laptop and distribute it to school kinds in under developed areas. The system runs Linux, can be "hand crank" power supplied, comes with cheap networking options, and feature modest storage (flash memory) and computing power (500mhz cpu). If that plan delivers, millions of kids will jump in the information age and, unavoidably, some of them will be driven to do more than just using someone else's software and will be looking for tools to build their own stuff. Even if only a tiny fraction of them will go this way, that represents tens of thousands of individuals. I don't know if the project will succeed, but if it does (I really wish) , it could have some far reaching effects on the nature of the software industry. So I thought Rebol would be a nice match to the platform. Both are about no nonsense, simple, low requirements, efficient computing. Suppose Rebol is to come bundled with the OLPC laptop. It could become de-facto standard all purposes scripting / development tool for the platform. Think what that would do the Rebol community. Think how it could empower all this people. OLPC site: http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ Bye, Louis -- To unsubscribe from the list, just send an email to lists at rebol.com with unsubscribe as the subject.
