One Laptop Per Child

MIT is working on a laptop that would cost a $100 and it plans to sell it to 3rd world govts in bundles of 1 million., which they expect the govts. to distribute to the poor kids and aid them in learning and being creative. And it charges by a crank shaft. You need to rotate the crank for 1min to get a 10min charge. And they can do everything a regular laptop can do. It doesn't have storage space. And it creates an adhoc wireless n/w with the other machines in the vicinity. If one of them is connected to the internet, every one can access the web.

Hmmm.. They don't know the 1st thing about the "3rd world". Thier intentions might be good, but this is just an expensive idea that is going to fail. The reason, nobody cares. There is nothing that this poor third world kids would learn from the web, that would help them in their lives. In anycase, who is going to teach them, who is going to support the networks, what do they use it for, is there any curriculum that is developed to make use of these new equipment, how long would some one hold to their laptop. there are too many questions.

its making wide publicity that google is supporting this project. They gave a $2 million to the research. that's like pocket money to buy candies for google. It's good, but its not something we can say that google is backing the project. to me it looks like, giving money because you can, not because u believe.

Any day, this top down approach wouldn't work. As google says, we should create solutions to the problems. In this case they are creating a solution and then mapping it to an imaginary problem that do not exist. You need to go into the interiors to know what these kids need, giving them something that don't even care about creates an overtime job for the spiders in the warehouses.