Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-12 Thread Xander Pirdy
On Tue, 11 May 2010, Martin Langhoff wrote: the interviewed social Darwinist is Robert Wright, the author of  Nonzero http://www.nonzero.org/ The filmmaker is Righteous Pictures http://righteouspictures.com/ Wright seems to believe that there is a higher purpose to biological and social evol

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-12 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM,   wrote: >> the interviewed social Darwinist is Robert Wright, the author of  Nonzero >> http://www.nonzero.org/ >> >> The filmmaker is Righteous Pictures http://righteouspictures.com/ >> >> Wright seems to

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-12 Thread Sameer Verma
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:39 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM,   wrote: >> the interviewed social Darwinist is Robert Wright, the author of  Nonzero >> http://www.nonzero.org/ >> >> The filmmaker is Righteous Pictures http://righteouspictures.com/ >> >> Wright seems t

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:49 PM, wrote: > the interviewed social Darwinist is Robert Wright, the author of  Nonzero > http://www.nonzero.org/ > > The filmmaker is Righteous Pictures http://righteouspictures.com/ > > Wright seems to believe that there is a higher purpose to biological > and socia

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-11 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
gee wiz. Talk about cultural whatevers going on, and I missing completely my very first chance I have ever had to have a grown-up conversation about social darwinism, a subject I have followed by my lonesome for way too long to have something better than very mixed up ideas, to the point I didn't e

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread forster
Caryl A little more research by me the interviewed social Darwinist is Robert Wright, the author of Nonzero http://www.nonzero.org/ The filmmaker is Righteous Pictures http://righteouspictures.com/ Wright seems to believe that there is a higher purpose to biological and social evolution, tha

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
Hi All I sent the video links to a few people. They shared my concerns. Here are some of their comments: First, from a highly respected cultural anthropologist who happens to specialize in the people of the Andes: "1 Have they not heard of the problems of reading a Darwinian evolution onto

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread forster
> I've been following your comments on this. Am I the only one who > finds this charming but at the same time strangely disturbing If you mean the intrusion of the outside world into their idyllic lifestyle - no If you mean the interviewee talking about Darwinian social evolution - yes O

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Yamandu Ploskonka
org > CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; patr...@collison.ie > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia > > This is indeed a truly amazing video, thanks for sharing! > > Christoph > > Am 09.05.2010 19:51, schrieb Chris Ball: > > http://vimeo.com/8709616 > > > > --

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > Hello All... I've been following your comments on this. Am I the > only one who finds this charming but at the same time strangely > disturbing What did you find disturbing about it? - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child _

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Caryl Bigenho
garlabs.org; patr...@collison.ie > Subject: Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia > > This is indeed a truly amazing video, thanks for sharing! > > Christoph > > Am 09.05.2010 19:51, schrieb Chris Ball: > > http://vimeo.com/8709616 > > > > -- > Christop

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
This is indeed a truly amazing video, thanks for sharing! Christoph Am 09.05.2010 19:51, schrieb Chris Ball: > http://vimeo.com/8709616 > -- Christoph Derndorfer co-editor, www.olpcnews.com e-mail: christ...@olpcnews.com ___ IAEP -- It's An Education

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-10 Thread Sameer Verma
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Cherry Withers wrote: > Excellent. Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward for more. > > On May 9, 2010 10:54 AM, "Chris Ball" wrote: > > http://vimeo.com/8709616 > > -- > Chris Ball   > One Laptop Per Child > ___ >

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Cherry Withers
Excellent. Thank you for sharing this. Looking forward for more. On May 9, 2010 10:54 AM, "Chris Ball" wrote: http://vimeo.com/8709616 -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugar

Re: [IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread C. Scott Ananian
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > http://vimeo.com/8709616 Fantastic. Like I always dreamed of the XO-1+wikipedia being used -- kids who read through the encyclopedia to find out about their world, like I did as a kid. --scott ps. the older man says he's learning to program

[IAEP] Peru, OLPC and Wikipedia

2010-05-09 Thread Chris Ball
http://vimeo.com/8709616 -- Chris Ball One Laptop Per Child ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep