Hogg is testing Planetarium software for the OLPC
Looks nice. I want.
For the children, of course...
I know the purpose of the OLPC project, but ya'know, I bet you could get a few million early adopters in the US and Europer.
Subsidise the early production until economy of scale is achieved.
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A summary in WSJ about the state of affairs for OLPC.[via reddit] The discussion is not very much about what really makes an OLPC.
They are cultural, philosophical, and political.
Not even John Lennon can overcome the flaws, given their deep cultural basis.
This is a follow-up to a post a few weeks back about the One Laptop Per Child program. I had offered that post by way of summary to a class exercise about technology in cultural context.
What children need is a go-kart (OLPC) they can play with, not a 12-wheeled Truck (Classmate PC) that can crush them while scratching a teacher's back.