And the seeds gain power as they create more seeds. Which is also inherent in the mesh capabilities, where I have to take issue with Taran's comment from another thread:
"OK. I hate to be the myth-slayer here, and I was honestly hoping that someone else would do it, but laptops with wireless cards - even Windows XP - can do this. In fact, this was one of the features that Apple marketers were shouting about a couple of years ago with the confusingly named 'Airport', and so forth. The mesh network has been done and continues to be done without Negroponte." No Taran, the ad hoc networks of most WiFi (Apple and XP) are very different from true mesh. One computer can share it, but the ones receiving it cannot then share it further (and so on - there are some modes in some basestations that allow 2 steps of sharing). And no one has provided a complete mesh node computer (with keyboard, display, and user software) for $100. Whether you like it or not, this is a breakthrough. Now I have a suggestion. Can we stop the arguing over whether this is or isn't the perfect solution to the world's problems, and start building the self guided learning software that will run on this or some other upcoming open source machine? Let's take the brainpower and bandwidth being used to prove our points and turn it to raising someone else up. End of my mild rant... Best Dave On 11/27/05, Patricia Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not weighing in on the commercial and philosophical problematic of > the $100 laptop offered by MIT, but I liked Terry King's analogy about > seeds. I've been increasingly thinking about the upcoming Worlds Touch > trip as a trip to sow seeds. The mythology of Johnny Appleseed, who > walked across the midwest with a bag of seeds and a pot on his head, > intrigues me. > > Agribusiness can sow seeds far more efficiently than ol' Johnny did, > but it won't be talking to the folks by the side of the road. > > Patricia Perkins > Worlds Touch > http://www.worldstouch.org > blog: http://thetraveler.typepad.com/worldstouchblog > > > > > __________________________________ > Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- The Daily Glyph http://www.gomaya.com/glyph Usumacinta http://www.gomaya.com/dams Cell 917 312 9733 _______________________________________________ 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.
