http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/13/olpc-in-india-through-reliance-communications/ Creative Chaos - Dina Mehta's Weblog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:31:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/13/olpc-in-india-through-reliance-communications/comment-page-1/#comment-742 elmo Sat, 28 Jun 2008 10:38:48 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/13/olpc-in-india-through-reliance-communications/#comment-742 Screw the OLPC solution... a 100$ laptop from the US is a joke. When we can do far far better. The US come across as a bunch of big time retards with this one... lol 100$ when it can be done in half the price... and trying to sell it to their papa's in programming is even more laughable. Screw the OLPC solution… a 100$ laptop from the US is a joke. When we can do far far better. The US come across as a bunch of big time retards with this one… lol 100$ when it can be done in half the price… and trying to sell it to their papa’s in programming is even more laughable.

]]> http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/13/olpc-in-india-through-reliance-communications/comment-page-1/#comment-74 Walter Brown Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:37:04 +0000 http://dinamehta.com/blog/2007/10/13/olpc-in-india-through-reliance-communications/#comment-74 The OLPC will die, and we will continue to sing “Long Live the OPLC”, or the Classmate, or the Eee, and all the multitude of pretenders to come. We will celebrate its gift in the same way that we sing the praises of SANSKRIT some 1,000 or 2,000 or 10,000 years after its birth (your historical perspective), in its modern voice that some call “Indo-European”. In time, the OLPC and its pretenders will help us understand our deepest and most ancient human commonality, that minute genetic mutation of some 200,000 years ago that enlightened humanity from its ancient cradle in the dark African continent, which we now call “FOXP2”, and help us overcome the divisiveness of human ignorance. There is little doubt that some(maybe too few)children in South Africa’s Cape Flats and Diep Sloot enclaves, the troubled youngsters of Brazil’s Favelas, and many “low caste” children of Kolkata and Mumbai, will survive without knowing the courage of Nicholas Negroponte, but the revolution he began will touch their lives most intimately. History will repeat itself in the same way that the knowledge of the ancients who gave us the written word prevailed over the burning, destruction, hoarding, theft and big business reticence of their wondrous manuscripts in modern Europe and ancient Peru. Their legacy in the form of little digits of electrons and photons sent to the flickering screens of OLPCs on wireless mesh newtorks will light up the unstoppable path of human knowledge. We will continue to argue over the economics of OLPCs and that the children of Niger who must survive on less than one dollar a day cannot afford its luxury, in much the same way that the old manuscripts of ancient Athens and Egypt were accessible only to the wealthy or well-connected, but their messages survived to inform us in this 21st century of the dangers of human ignorance. I personally, an African who succeeded in cutting through the barriers of ignorance using the “Slide Rule” predecessor of the OLPC, will support the concept in anyway that I can. I say "Long Live the courage of Negropnte and his friends, and his OLPC and all its pretenders. The OLPC will die, and we will continue to sing “Long Live the OPLC”, or the Classmate, or the Eee, and all the multitude of pretenders to come. We will celebrate its gift in the same way that we sing the praises of SANSKRIT some 1,000 or 2,000 or 10,000 years after its birth (your historical perspective), in its modern voice that some call “Indo-European”. In time, the OLPC and its pretenders will help us understand our deepest and most ancient human commonality, that minute genetic mutation of some 200,000 years ago that enlightened humanity from its ancient cradle in the dark African continent, which we now call “FOXP2”, and help us overcome the divisiveness of human ignorance. There is little doubt that some(maybe too few)children in South Africa’s Cape Flats and Diep Sloot enclaves, the troubled youngsters of Brazil’s Favelas, and many “low caste” children of Kolkata and Mumbai, will survive without knowing the courage of Nicholas Negroponte, but the revolution he began will touch their lives most intimately. History will repeat itself in the same way that the knowledge of the ancients who gave us the written word prevailed over the burning, destruction, hoarding, theft and big business reticence of their wondrous manuscripts in modern Europe and ancient Peru. Their legacy in the form of little digits of electrons and photons sent to the flickering screens of OLPCs on wireless mesh newtorks will light up the unstoppable path of human knowledge. We will continue to argue over the economics of OLPCs and that the children of Niger who must survive on less than one dollar a day cannot afford its luxury, in much the same way that the old manuscripts of ancient Athens and Egypt were accessible only to the wealthy or well-connected, but their messages survived to inform us in this 21st century of the dangers of human ignorance. I personally, an African who succeeded in cutting through the barriers of ignorance using the “Slide Rule” predecessor of the OLPC, will support the concept in anyway that I can. I say “Long Live the courage of Negropnte and his friends, and his OLPC and all its pretenders.

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