Hmm
With all due respect to everyone, this OLPC thing seems like a waste of resources to me.
A few weeks ago, Taco Bell did a hunger drive kind of thing, and for $10 you can feed a hungry person for a month. If I'm hungry, I'll trade my laptop for a sandwich.
posted @ 11/13/2007 06:28:00 PM
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I don't understand why people don't think that Uruguay already spends money on education and that OLPC represents an alternate take on how to spend THAT money. There's a conceit built into the idea that all the "emerging" nations need to spend all their resources on survival.
That sounded harsher than I meant it to be. you know what I mean....
I do know what you mean, and I agree. One does have to attack multiple problems at once.
What got to me was not nations buying these for their people, but the charitable giving aspect of it. I guess when I see people buying this thing I see money that might have gone to more exigent needs.
I also don't get a warm and fuzzy feeling off of the fact that the guy pushing this thing is brother to the Deputy Secretary of State.
Don't mean to criticize generosity of any kind, either. I'm just sayin'.
I don't understand why Negroponte refuses to put this on the market. Get some economies of scale and drive down the cost even more.
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