Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Deathwatch: One Laptop Per Child | #Negroponte's folly. Much like #sibal's #aakash folly. #Smartphones better solution

One Laptop Per Child puts computers in the hands of the world's most vulnerable children to help educate them out of poverty. It's a noble cause championed by our brightest minds - but it doesn't seem to work.

The Basics

In the mid-2000s, faculty members from the MIT Media Research Lab set ou...

http://readwrite.com/2012/10/23/readwriteweb-deathwatch-one-laptop-per-child-olpc

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2 comments:

san said...

OLPC was started before there was any such thing as smartphones. Furthermore, devices with 3-inch screens aren't the best way for people to learn things. Use smartphones for what they were intended - portable communications with a small few inches of screen as a bonus. Nobody will be doing serious work on a 3-inch screen.

nizhal yoddha said...

olpc, if it was ever relevant, is no longer so. it's like blackberry was relevant a few years ago, but it isn't any more as technology has marched on. as for 3 inch screens, the new 5 inch display factories set up by sharp, lg et al will make 5 inch screens much more prevalent (if not the norm) for smartphones by next year. a 5 inch smartphone screen is quite sufficient to consume video and web (i know, i use one and watch lots of TED, youtube and read most of my email and web stuff on it).