"But Sean! Where is the clever title? Where is the probably copyrighted image you add to make yourself seem oh-so-witty?"
Pipe down. I'll add a fully-fleshed article tomorrow morning, maybe. I have been busier than hell with school stuff, company stuff, and personal stuff. Attempts to take the suck out of my life have snagged the top priority on all my cores, to make an awful computer metaphor.
I break radio silence only to let you know of the stuff going on with the OLPC.
Pow!
Blam!
Future! I can smell it cooking down south. Man, that last sentence is gross!
Those who live outside the US may be wondering why people in the so-called First World are getting to use these (Pow! links to a story about Alabama kids using the OLPC in school.) While I could probably make a pretty funny joke about Alabama being a howling maw of poverty, the question is just. What the fuck, Negroponte? I mean, yeah, great, spread the love. But the spread the love in places the love is needed. Kids in Alabama are not in desperate need of these things. It seems they won't even be used to their capacity -- just as some half-assed teaching aid. The kids have to give them back at the end of the year!
The program I envisioned when I heard about this was something GIVEN to children unable to acquire these resources any other way. I'm pretty sure those kids in Alabama have a library with computers, or probably even a computer lab in a nearby school or even one in their own elementary school. I envisioned a tool that a child could make into any other tool they needed or wanted. A cornucopia machine the kids could use in any way they wanted, to program anything they wished. I am more than a little disgusted that some are going to the US as a charitable donation to a SCHOOL, not actual individuals.
Oh well, enough whining. At least the vast majority are going someplace useful. Enough bitching from me for now.
Watch tomorrow for a review of a book named Leaving Microsoft to Change The World that someone amazing gave me.
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