Comments on: Is the 100$ laptop a fake? http://matteopenzo.hotmc.com/blog/2006/02/08/is-the-100-laptop-a-fake/ Rants and rumblings on my personal views on life, business and other amusements. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:10:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.1 by: Simone http://matteopenzo.hotmc.com/blog/2006/02/08/is-the-100-laptop-a-fake/#comment-7 Tue, 28 Feb 2006 09:30:00 +0000 http://matteopenzo.hotmc.com/blog/2006/02/08/is-the-100-laptop-a-fake/#comment-7 A pc without electricity is completly useless just like dry milk without water. A pc without electricity is completly useless just like dry milk without water.

]]> by: penzo http://matteopenzo.hotmc.com/blog/2006/02/08/is-the-100-laptop-a-fake/#comment-5 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:25:58 +0000 http://matteopenzo.hotmc.com/blog/2006/02/08/is-the-100-laptop-a-fake/#comment-5 1) Is the 100$ a marketing initiative? I think that only time will show. It's indeed a (or one of the possible) good move towards the deletion of the digital divide. 2) Is the informatics culture useful to fasten the progress and enrich the economies of the developing countries? Yes, absolutely. Is programming or deep computer knowledge necessary to someone of dares to approach informatics and take advantages from it? NO! Is the access (of any type) to the Internet and to its services one of the first step in the right direction? YES! And let me add a point to your last sentence: a mobile phone battery (which, as you probably know, could also be recharged using human labour) lasts incredibly more than a laptop one. 1) Is the 100$ a marketing initiative? I think that only time will show. It’s indeed a (or one of the possible) good move towards the deletion of the digital divide.
2) Is the informatics culture useful to fasten the progress and enrich the economies of the developing countries? Yes, absolutely. Is programming or deep computer knowledge necessary to someone of dares to approach informatics and take advantages from it? NO! Is the access (of any type) to the Internet and to its services one of the first step in the right direction? YES!

And let me add a point to your last sentence: a mobile phone battery (which, as you probably know, could also be recharged using human labour) lasts incredibly more than a laptop one.

]]> by: christian http://matteopenzo.hotmc.com/blog/2006/02/08/is-the-100-laptop-a-fake/#comment-4 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 13:25:11 +0000 http://matteopenzo.hotmc.com/blog/2006/02/08/is-the-100-laptop-a-fake/#comment-4 I've been convinced from others that the $100 computer is just a marketing initiative. By the way Negroponte eventually cares also about the culture on using computers (learning how to use programs, or how to program itself), so something more related to the profession not just flickering. Would you work only with a cellphone? I couldn't. Maybe in the future you will be able to connect your phone to the TV and so on, but then you will have to provide also the telly to those guys And remember that this is a project thought for third world needs (electricity for instance) I’ve been convinced from others that the $100 computer is just a marketing initiative. By the way Negroponte eventually cares also about the culture on using computers (learning how to use programs, or how to program itself), so something more related to the profession not just flickering. Would you work only with a cellphone? I couldn’t. Maybe in the future you will be able to connect your phone to the TV and so on, but then you will have to provide also the telly to those guys And remember that this is a project thought for third world needs (electricity for instance)

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