<incom> OLPC (was: Re: From the CES in Las vegas)

[Felipe Fonseca]

Hey Steve

But let me tell you about Brasil. I have been working
with the Pontos de Cultura project and some other
initiatives here. The fact is that, as the X-O carries
the MIT brand, no one asks for our opinion about it,
as if something developed by those technology
experts shouldn't be questioned ever. I too believe
that people designing it are well-intentioned, and
my intuition says once some X-Os arrive in the
streets, they'll be hacked both for better and worst
uses anyway.

I know there's at least one of those in São Paulo,
I'll try to check it out soon.

f

On 1/13/07, Steve Cisler <sacisler at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think the people involved in the XO project are at
> least as high-principled as some of us believe we are.
> I think there are some great design features in the
> new machine, and I did like Negroponte's bemoaning the
> fact that kids (and adults) all over the world are
> being taught word/excel/ppoint as if that's the main
> reason for using a computer.
>
> I think it's important to have people at the country
> level (as participants, kibbitzers and gadflies, and
> planners and facilitators) to be commenting...and
> later evaluating how this rolls out. Right now I don't
> think any of us are more than interested parties, or
> perhaps I should say persons of interest--to use my
> government's wonder euphemism for 'suspect.' Maybe we
> can gather others to take part.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
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