J. Milgram wrote:
Real topic: anyone thinking of getting one of those $100 laptops? I
hear we can get one as an adult first-worldians if we buy three and
donate one to the cause, or something like that.
Quotes of the day, from Nicholas Negroponte:
"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...
""I have to laugh when people refer to XO as a weak or crippled
machine
and how kids should get a 'real' one," Negroponte wrote. "Trust
me, I
will give up my real one very soon and use only XO. It will be far
better, in many new and important ways."
I actually might be interested in going in with someone if there's a
deal like that. From looking at the website though, I couldn't find
anything about how an individual could purchase one- in fact, it looks
like they may not even be in production yet. (The program you're
talking about is the one at http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ , right?)
-Derek
