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Negroponte Hints At Paper-Like Design For XO-3
waderoush writes "In May 2008, Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, unveiled an e-book like design for the second-generation XO Laptop, consisting of a pair of facing touchscreens. In a new e-mail interview, Negroponte says that design has been thrown out, and that instead the foundation is working on version '1.75' of the existing green-and-white laptop with a more powerful processor, as well as a '3.0' version that would look 'more like a sheet of paper.' Negroponte also addressed a range of other questions about the OLPC project, including the significance of the project to make 1.6 million e-books readable on the XO laptop and the organization's push to reach more children in Latin America, Africa, Afghanistan, and Pakistan."
Seriously, who is funding this shit? Some people have WAY too much money and need to learn about a little thing we Republicans like to call "objectivism" (Ayn Rand, look it up /. libs)
Exactly, why do we are about OLPC. Is there any evidence it is not just a waste of resources?
I'd have thought One Meal Per Day Per Child might be slightly more important, but hell, at least it's something for Negroponte and his ilk to ponder over brandy and cigars at the Gentlemens Club.
I just can't help thinking that sorting out such basic problems as hunger and poverty should be slightly higher on the list than whether they can play Facebook and post on Twitter.