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OLPC Gets a New Name, New Features
pickyouupatnine writes "According to a story on Ars Technica, the $100 MIT Laptop is now going to cost $140. It has a new name — it'll now be called the Children's Machine 1 (CM1). The added price comes with new features! The laptop will now come with a 400 MHz AMD processor, 512 Megs of Flash storage, an SD card slot, mic and headphone jacks, a built in camera, built-in wireless, and an 8-inch LCD at a 1280x900 resolution." From the article: "Tremendous progress has been made this summer on the Sugar user interface system that will be shipped with the CM1. Funded by Google through the Summer of Code (SoC) initiative, intrepid college student Erik Pukinskis has collaborated with the GNOME development community to adapt AbiWord for use with the portable Linux system. Although still experimental, AbiWord has successfully been integrated into the Sugar environment. Artists and developers continue to work on the evolving Sugar interface, and the fruits of their labor can be seen in demoes, mockups, and design reviews."
Clearly, Stoll is FAR behind the times - his book was written more than a decade ago. . .
.he's apparently abandoned his original stance in favor of selling Klein Bottles on the internet (http://www.kleinbottle.com/). . .
His book is the more recent.
I don't see how it's possible today to argue that our children don't need exposure to computing to succeed.
Actually read both works, then think, before making up your mind.
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I've got a Klein coffee mug. At the time it was ordered he answered the phone himself. Perhaps he'd be willing to disucuss his current views with you.
KFG