ipped to work with it, that even might prefer to work with it. This
> ecosystem means that Windows on OLPC might be its salvation in fulfilling
> its original mission of being a tool for constructivist learning versus a
> harbinger of its demise.
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> Chris Bernard
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> OLPC has been challenged because too many dynamics of the effort were simply
> ignored...
Negraponte promised 100 million users: couldn't deliver a minute
fraction of it. He promised a $100 PC: delivered it at twice the
price. He promised a revolutionary UI: he's now switching to Windows.
He p
ersus a harbinger of its demise.
Chris Bernard
Microsoft
User Experience Evangelist
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> Now comes the news of OLPC 2.0.
"News" connotes actuality. OLPC 2.0 at $75 is unadulterated fantasy.
Every imaginable promise made by OLPC has been either completely
broken or diluted to irrelevance. Negraponte should just set up a
for-profit company, join adulthood and show us why the world
It's been a weird week for the One Laptop Per Child project, and I'm
surprised we didn't discuss it here.
First was the news that:
Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child organization admitted
defeat in its effort to sell millions of open-source computers in
Asia, Africa and Latin Ameri
