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www.ted.com Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the “0 laptop.”TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world’s leading thinkers and doers are invited to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes — including speakers such as Jill Bolte Taylor, Sir Ken Robinson, Hans Rosling, Al Gore and Arthur Benjamin. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, and Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, politics and the arts. Watch the Top 10 TEDTalks on TED.com, at http
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I watched the Hi, it’s Wendy and I’m… part. I paused the video. You know how to use your eyes like a hypnotist. That’s all for me.
Just wondering if anyone has calculated the environmental impact of producing – and disposing within a few years – this many laptops?
More insidious is the underlying assumption that the way to improve lives is to help the world all become more like us. You know, to live a more ‘Western’ or ‘American’ lifestyle.
its funny. every time i watch a TED vid i think “maybe we can make it. maybe there is hope” then i remember bush was elected twice and laugh at myself.
Government distribution in third world countries of laptops. Fraud, anyone?
I think it is useful, but not in the form of a “goverment credit” as it is. I will rather consider a Fundation with donations and generic, cheap, asian computers.
@BR177
I think you are well-meaning, but there needs to be a seismic shift in your thinking on this matter.
how about giving them something to eat?
Or it would make the more knowledgeable raise their game higher?
ALL students in the US or just the smart ones?
Putting knowledge in the hands of the impoverished is the first step to creating an egalitarian world. That’s a threat to some of the industrial aristocratic elites.
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I really don’t see how such action would cause any danger. The internet can teach kids in the third world countries language, natural science and social science. It’ll help them see the world from many perspectives. And thus, it would only lead them to a more prosper and civilized community.
Knowledge does make a difference. And there’s no better, faster learning tool than a computer and the World Wide Web.
Id buy one for 300!
Nick is undermining the cycle of ignorance and dependency, not only for people in the first world but especially people in the first. He is very dangerous, because he is working towards giving everyone robust access to the great digital storehouse of human knowledge, i.e. the internet, with humanities most versatile tool: the computer.
to who? world domination and suppression of others for corporate gain??
this man has a good heart and purpose,let’s all support him!
This is certainly a very innovative technology that has a lot of opportunities. Just imagine if students here in US could teach children in Africa over internet. The computers designed by Negroponte can open a door to peer-to-peer educational model.
$%#&, my laptop cost $3,200.
By one estimate, the amount of poverty lifted in China and India by the information technology is more than the sum of all poverty lifted in all of history combined. We are all aware of the tremendous harm and corrupting influence that technology can have, however, we must also NOT ignore the positive gains that modernity has brought to humanity
There seems to be a rampant retro-romantic myth of the tribal society. Please refer to Steven Pinker’s “myth of violence” on TED. The myth of an utopian tribal society is understandable given the context of this age, but nevertheless the myth must be perpetrated with historical facts. People tend to ignore the tremendous positive benefits that modern technology has brought–increased life expectancy, reduced infant mortality rate. (continuted)
The natives have been getting along fine without your crappy computers. I say leave ’em alone.
So you’re corrupting natives in foreign lands with technology. Great.
optional no backlit screen. I could read it’s screen in bed using a lamp and not get eye burn! I think i want one of these.
Brillant. He is the smartest man alive, he is doing something to change the world in a positive way. This is the most dangerous man in the world.
I support your ideas Nicholas Negroponte! Good on ya!
That’s a spirit right there. Makes my day.
well this is a very great project I must admit
wow… amazing!