The federal government didn't budget for much more than just the computers with its Digital Education Revolution . So open source software might help the state government stretch the budget a bit further. Coincidently, next week Pia Waugh from the One Laptop per Child Australia Foundation will speak in Canberra at CASE AGM on Monday about Linux and education .
A few memorable points: Visiting a computer startup in Boston, Washington to NY by train, Canadian Pacific train across Canada, a Californian diner with everyone in baseball caps, a walk across the George Washington Bridge to Hoboken late at night.
Oddly while I have written a few hi-tech travel reports and a book on the subject, it has never occurred to me to do a report about North America. On my one trip I found the place technically unsophisticated. Perhaps that was because it was a long time ago, or I just went to the wrong places.
ps: At one stage I found myself standing on a desk in the ABC office in NY, poking a hole in the ceiling with a screwdriver to put a computer cable through. I glanced down and got vertigo, as this way half way up the Rockefeller Centre.
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The federal government didn't budget for much more than just the computers with its Digital Education Revolution . So open source software might help the state government stretch the budget a bit further. Coincidently, next week Pia Waugh from the One Laptop per Child Australia Foundation will speak in Canberra at CASE AGM on Monday about Linux and education .
A few memorable points: Visiting a computer startup in Boston, Washington to NY by train, Canadian Pacific train across Canada, a Californian diner with everyone in baseball caps, a walk across the George Washington Bridge to Hoboken late at night.
One thing I did not get to see was the subterranean cafeteria in the Carlsbad Caverns.
Oddly while I have written a few hi-tech travel reports and a book on the subject, it has never occurred to me to do a report about North America. On my one trip I found the place technically unsophisticated. Perhaps that was because it was a long time ago, or I just went to the wrong places.
ps: At one stage I found myself standing on a desk in the ABC office in NY, poking a hole in the ceiling with a screwdriver to put a computer cable through. I glanced down and got vertigo, as this way half way up the Rockefeller Centre.