Let them eat Cake

Let them eat Cake

Posted Jul 5, 2006 7:14 UTC (Wed) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)
In reply to: Let them eat Cake by botsie
Parent article: Interview: Jim Gettys (Part II)

Obviously that's the first question that people raise... All the ideas you mentioned are important. But just because somebody contributes to OLPC doesn't mean they couldn't contribute to those as well.

The interesting thing about OLPC is that it's both a compassionate thing to do and also a fun project. OLPC is a very ambitious project and it's experimental and new. This means it's more likely to fail, but I still think it's worth the risk.

As far as power goes, my experience is that there are a lot of places with food and water but no electricity. Even in towns the electicity is flakey and tends to destroy computers. In a school setting, the desks do not have power connected.

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