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Solar Wi-Fi To Bring Net to Developing Countries
JLavezzo writes "TreeHugger.com has an article today on a new wifi development organization: MIT and the UN have teamed up to provide kids living in the world's least developed nations $100 laptops, their 2 watts of juice provided by hand or foot crank. Cool, but - and this was one of Bill Gates' criticisms - what's a computer without internet access? Enter Green Wi-Fi, a non-profit that seeks to provide 'last mile internet access with nothing more than a single broadband internet connection, rooftops and the sun.' Their wi-fi access nodes, which consist of a small solar panel, a heavy-duty battery, and a router, can be linked together to extend one internet connection into a larger network. The two guys who started the company - Bruce Baikie and Marc Pomerleau - happen to be veterans of Sun Microsystems. Deployment is set to start in India at the end of this summer."
Howz about we just forget about bringing our depraved culture to the developing world and strive to eliminate genocide and rampant overpopulation.
Good words, yours are.
Christ forbid they should get fed, watered, vaccinated, housed, clothed, educated, kept from self-infection (i.e. indiscriminate f**king), and kept from shooting each other _before_ they get to cruise MySpace, Amazon, and eBay while downloading porn, receiving spam (though, receiving Nigerian '419' emails would be delightfully ironic), and enduring BSODs.
"It's time to take life by the cans." ~ Bender ("Bendin' in the Wind", ep. 3-13)