As I keep saying, it's not a $100 laptop. It's a $100 million laptop. As far as this Negroponte issue - is it Negroponte's, or is it MIT Media Labs? If it is a product of MIT Media labs, wouldn't it be more appropriate to call it 'the MIT Media lab laptop which costs $100 US if you order a million'?
I never even heard of Nicholas Negroponte before this laptop. Someone must think he's awfully important. So I found his biography (http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/nnbio.htm ) and then the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte And here's the Wikipedia link to the $100 laptop (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%24100_laptop ) which I haven't touched and I am unlikely to touch because my thoughts on this would be considered to be outside 'Neutral Point of View', or NPOV. I am glad that it links to the Simputer, a real initiative which doesn't require 100 million. I suppose that the problem of the Simputer is that it doesn't have the U.S. marketing machine behind it... and that may also be it's greatest downfall, if people buy into the hype. I've tried contacting his Negroponte-ness in the past when the initiative was first unveiled (oddly, at the same time the U.S. media was reporting the Simputer as a failure despite it's smaller successes). Maybe he doesn't like me. :-) I don't mind him so much, I just don't believe in what he is doing and I'm not buying the hype... and I'm not even writing about him because even bad press feeds the marketing machine. I'm not out to help 'the MIT Media lab laptop which costs $100 US if you order a million' even if it's bad press. It's a myopic approach to a problem which many, MANY people who have their feet on the ground disagree with, and ignoring those same people reinforces the same divide that this laptop is supposed to solve. If you bought over a million Simputers, the price would probably be below a hundred dollars. Duh. Hype. Hype. Hype. Andy Carvin wrote: > Honestly, I think probably not. One thing Negroponte has been > emphasizing is that they only want to work with national governments > willing to purchase laptops in batches of one million or more. That's > one of the ways they intend to keep costs down. I don't know if Italy > is one of the initial countries signed up to partner with them. -andy > > epanto wrote: > >> Dear Andy, >> We are a school network in Italy,www.dschola.it >> <http://www.dschola.it>, and >> we participate in an eu and latin american cofounded project, called >> integra, www.integraproject.org <http://www.integraproject.org> >> we are interested in collaborating with the $100 laptop project: we are >> trying to get in touch with Mr Negroponte and its staff but we don't >> succeed. Do you know if there are any interest from them in >> collaboration >> with schools? >> >> thank you >> >> all the best >> >> Eleonora Panto' >> >> eCommunities Area Manager >> ______________________________________________ >> CSP - ICT Innovation >> +390114815139 - +393486086090 >> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> skype:epanto >> web: www.dschola.it <http://www.dschola.it/> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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. > > -- Taran Rampersad Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net http://www.digitaldivide.net/profile/Taran Coming on January 1st, 2006: http://www.OpenDepth.com "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ 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.
