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mission?mission?Posted Feb 17, 2006 9:29 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: mission? by rknop Parent article: PCs for the poor: Which design will win? (ZDNet)
The amount of good information on the internet is vast.
For the same price as a internet connection nowadays you can get access to the same quality and amount of good information that rivals the very best research libraries from just a decade and a half ago (that were reserved to only the very richest people from the richest nations on earth.)
Not to mention the communication possiblities. VoIP, email, file transfers, etc etc.
You cannot get this any other way in a reasonable fasion other then computers and internet access. Even the cost of shipping text books for a school would probably cover most of the cost of these '100 dollar laptop'.
Compare the costs of providing school supplies, up to date school books, phone, reliable letter service, teachers, etc etc to the cost of a low-end PC and some sort of wireless internet access.
They don't even need to have reliable electricity since it's hand-cranked device. Just something reliable to run the wireless access point and reliable communications to that.
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mission? Posted Feb 17, 2006 18:20 UTC (Fri) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] Not to disagree in general, but the "hand-cranked device" feature is little more than ... spin.
mission? Posted Feb 23, 2006 12:12 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] hehe.
I still want to see one in action. I like the idea of having a mobile device that I'd never have to worry about running out of juice.
Batteries are kinda of a necisarry evil right now.. I'd say solar would be great, but a hand crank should be considurably cheaper and also would work at night.
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