One Laptop Per Child

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One Laptop Per Child

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Find a video on OLPC here.

[Jazzzoline]

Interesting.

Thinking out loud here: 3rd world people need to learn computers and Internet before they learn the bascis of a society's survival: don't procreate more than your society's capacity.

hmm..

Mondialisation really is about Internet.

[tippy]

I'm confused by the advertising. A rugged laptop for children that really works and...?

[Pete C]

One concern some in the third world have expressed is that giving children in developing nations an item of such value could actually place them at great risk.

[moneyp]

One concern some in the third world have expressed is that giving children in developing nations an item of such value could actually place them at great risk.

Who?

How about food and AIDS medicine first?

The food and AIDS medicine are of greater value than the $100 laptops, which don't really have much resale value or other use in that region.

[Pete C]

Who?

I don't remember who was being paraphrased, but it came from a Library Science prof in regard to a discussion of just this initiative.

[tippy]

The food and AIDS medicine are of greater value than the $100 laptops, which don't really have much resale value or other use in that region.

What Would Oprah Do?

[jesus marion joseph]

What Would Oprah Do?

Ban Herself For Life.

[patricia]

Who?



The food and AIDS medicine are of greater value than the $100 laptops, which don't really have much resale value or other use in that region.

Without healthcare and with people dropping like flies from AIDS, lap-tops, as useful as they could potentially be, would be of no use at all.
Get them healthy. Give them hope for a future. Then give them laptops. My opinion of course. But, if you think you have no future, the incentive is not there to plan for it.

[moneyp]

Without healthcare and with people dropping like flies from AIDS, lap-tops, as useful as they could potentially be, would be of no use at all.
Get them healthy. Give them hope for a future. Then give them laptops. My opinion of course. But, if you think you have no future, the incentive is not there to plan for it.

Giving them laptops doesn't mean that they can't get food or medicine at the same time. We're talking about two different goals. One deals with survival, the other with giving them something to live for other than survival.

[tippy]

How about food and AIDS medicine first?

[Enforcer]

How about food and AIDS medicine first?

No way. Laptops first.

[Noj]

How about food and AIDS medicine first?

No way. Laptops first.

And wi-fi.

LMAO at this exchange

[Jazzzoline]

How about food and AIDS medicine first?

If first world provide them food and Aids medicine when they don't stop multiplying themselves, won't be long for the first world ain't first.

Regulation baby: either food (lack of), either illness

either war, either genocide

either birth pill, either condom, either abstinence (proven not effective)

[Chris D]

And wi-fi.

[tippy]

sterilisation? I'm glad my parents multiplied themselves. They multplied themselves three times. So let the dying die off and give the rest laptops? It might win a campaign.

[Jazzzoline]

sterilisation? I'm glad my parents multiplied themselves. They multplied themselves three times. So let the dying die off and give the rest laptops? It might win a campaign.

Apparently, your parents and the society they live in could afford the 3 of yous to live. Not what we,re talking about here..

But your slogan is funny.

[tippy]

Apparently, your parents and the society they live in could afford the 3 of yous to live. Not what we,re talking about here..

But your slogan is funny.

I don't think they think like us - planning for a child means so much in college education (in addition to of course the bare essentials) but they probably think of their children AS their wealth. They probably have a way of thinking that doesn't translate to ours and vice versa.

As far as providing the means to reduce suffering in third world nations, I think 1. it isn't like industrialized nations haven't taken resources from those regions and 2. the value of reducing human suffering in and of itself.

[Jazzzoline]

I don't think they think like us - planning for a child means so much in college education (in addition to of course the bare essentials) but they probably think of their children AS their wealth. They probably have a way of thinking that doesn't translate to ours and vice versa.

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their lack of thinking otherwise lead them to their actual situation.

anyways. I don't think we can still think of them as lean though. They came from "malnutrition" to "malbouffe". Drinking Pepsi 24/7.

They now suffer from type 2 diabete. isnt it what first world is about?

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[clinthopson]

Useful, but not essential at this time.

[tippy]

what is the crank for - is that the battery?

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what is the crank for - is that the battery?

Yea... to recharge the battery.

Useful, but not essential at this time.

I like the idea, if only because it seems so exquisitely subversive to me.

[Jazzzoline]

Yea... to recharge the battery.

Now I get the picture: one kid gets the food, then he can pedal for the battery charge for the laptop another kid uses.

[tippy]

Now I get the picture: one kid gets the food, then he can pedal for the battery charge for the laptop another kid uses.

Right, one laptop + one slave per child.

[Jazzzoline]

Now I understand the purpose of the project "one laptop per child" ( third world).
http://www.freerice.com/

That's how they can get rice for free: They have to use their laptop and answer the questions.

[tippy]

What if they are too weak to turn the crank?

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What if they are too weak to turn the crank?

Well, then I guess that they wouldn't have much longer to live anyway.

There are many millions in Africa and other Third World countries who are strong enough to "turn the crank" and are likely ingenious enough to use a tool like this for their own benefit -- even if they just sell it to buy food and medicine or use it for barter.

But I suspect that many thousands more will use it to create opportunities with.

"Take the word laptop and substitute the word education and no one would object," says Nicolas Negroponte.

The laptop provides a network to provide teachers and students a constant link to one another. It also provides all the world's literature to people who don't have books.

The laptop is -- in the mind of those creatiing it -- perhaps the only hope for people, who generally don't have access to education, the chance to get one.

[patricia]

What if they are too weak to turn the crank?

Or dead?