RE: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech

Joe, This is an intriguing idea! >>Sony Clie's do all the same thing, including video, sound, mp3, text, still, flash, and even internet Can you help identify specific (low-cost) Clie models that have all the above capabilities? A recent check on eBay yielded a number of >$250 Clie models. We

Re: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech

But Joe, et. al., The Clie is so much bigger. I mean for what I am thinking. But then, my thinking might be too small!! What appeals about the ipod is its diminuitive size compared to other things. It slips right into a pocket and disappears. The use threshhold is very low because the function

RE: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech

> Even today, in my much more limited connection to electronic > technology, I field email from people who are asking me questions > such as, "Why is the web page on my screen bigger than the > screen? It won't all fit on there!" Hi Steve, I think in some respects your observation helps answer

Re: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech

While I certainly sympathize with ipods as micro-supercomputers, much older - and thereby much cheaper - Sony Clie's do all the same thing, including video, sound, mp3, text, still, flash, and even internet. What they lack is phone, but that is what distinguishes the smartphones. In the meantime,

Re: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech

May be I can share an experience from a village in Bihar, India, arguably a state that has slid further behind where it was a couple decades ago according to most indices of development.. My team sent a couple PCs to one of its districts that was most notoriously high on criminality index.. That

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Re: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech

Dave, et. al., I was directly involved in people learning to use and maintain a great variety of equipment for a bunch of years, and I certainly don't doubt that equipment has become simpler to maintain; that's often the case. I also saw great frustration from people who used equipment and eit

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Re: [DDN] Nicholas Negroponte- ISTE NECC Speech

Sabi ni Dave noong Wed, 12 Jul 2006 07:55:22 -0500: > The Ipod is definitely an intriguing tool for training (I should > convince my boss to buy me one for, er, training purposes). I'm > wondering how long it'll be before someone comes up with a Linux distro http://www.ipodlinux.org/ -- Daniel O.