Steve, replying to your statements, > Negroponte explicitly resists the idea of shared and public computing, and > wants immediately to move to personal computing. > > The down sides of personal computing are obvious, and extend well beyond the > matter of initial cost. Personal computing tends to make maintenance and > repair problems and costs also personal, for example, while social computing > allows a community of users to share such costs. > > Personal or social computing: which is the right road for those without > computers and their benefits to get access to them?
Who are we to make the decision as to which approach is the best? Shouldn't the people involved have a say, and, in order to allow them to do so, shouldn't we allow various initiatives to go forward, so that people can use them? just a thought (am I missing something?) Sandy Andrews -- Sandra Sutton Andrews, PhD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Digital Media and Instructional Technologies Arizona State University & The Floaters Organization Now in Mexico and Arizona _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
