Another write-up: http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/the-sods-must-be-crazy-olpc-to-d... And of course, tons of comments... my favourites: "Imagine the smiles on the children's faces when they find out instead of something boring like food or a Malaria vaccine it's a slow-ass Linux tablet. The whyPad." "Just hope no one ever tries something like this in an area where toy-shaped land-mines or cluster bombs have been deployed. Pick the right pretty shiny, you get a nifty tool/tool. Pick the wrong one, you lose your arm." "Here is another variation: select some blue collar areas in the first world countries, drop these same tablets there, loaded with books about astrophysics, quantum mechanics, biology and nanotech. Come back a year later and see if there is any PHD emerges spontaneously." -- Rahul On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:03 PM, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa@gmail.com> wrote:
"We will literally take [OLPC] tablets and drop them out of helicopters...When I say I drop out of the helicopters, I mean it...it's like a Coke bottle falling out of the sky..." -- Nicholas Negroponte at Open Mobile Summit
pc mag article - http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395763,00.asp
olpc news commentary - http://www.olpcnews.com/people/negroponte/xo_helicopter_deployments_nich.htm...
video of talk - http://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/webcast/2011/06/social-innovation-summit-2011... (comments are at 1 hr mark) _______________________________________________ change mailing list change@change.washington.edu http://changemm.cs.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/change