Website review: One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a low-...
BIGPOLEHERBEAR discovered this in Computers
•64 reviews since Jul 14, 2004
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- senorsam21 rated 9 months ago
- Try this again in 20 years or so and maybe it will work... right now the infrastructure will not support it.
SuddenlyPie rated 10 months ago- I'm so excited about this. I want to get one for my daughter and if I could, every other child in the world.
- rgupta2003 rated 10 months ago
- Another thing to remember in this debate is that although there are hundreds of millions of people who are struggling, the education & development of those who are surviving can only be a good thing. These educated children can then help their communities & countries pull themselves up. For the sceptics, I'd say please come up with your own idea to improve the lot of humanity & act on it!!
- sevichase rated 11 months ago
- I am so excited about this laptop. I am going to serve in Africa with the Peace Corps and I certainly hope I can use these with my info tech project there. They have everything I wanted in a laptop/computer for my project. Open source software, durability, wireless...
- ChemicalParade rated 12 months ago
- This is bollocks. Kids are already getting ideas above their station, they don't need a laptop. They need discipline.
- judolphin rated 12 months ago
- You're right nibbler and brabblebrex... when an important problem exists, you ignore everything less important. If you have high cholesterol and a cold, don't you DARE buy Nyquil, because high cholesterol exists within your body! Come on. You criticize people when they do something good for the poor of the world. You might want to consider that you might be part of the problem.
These are computer scientists. You expect them to tackle the AIDS epidemic? Jesus H... yes, put the rest of humanity on hold because we can only tackle one problem at a time. Well, what the hell are you doing to cure AIDS or provide clean water in Africa? At least these people are trying to give impoverished kids the skills and access to information needed to pull themselves out of poverty, gain an education, etc. Even if you are doing something, it does not excuse what you said. You WILL get some flak for saying what you did, and deservedly so. These people are trying to do something very good. Anything good is better than nothing, so stop criticizing good things others do becaude it's not "good enough". Go ahead and flame me back; I don't care. This silliness makes the world a worse place -- if you make one person hesitate to do something "kinda good" because they could be doing something "better," then your words are contemptible. - You're right nibbler and brabblebrex... when an important problem exists, you ignore everything less important. If you have high cholesterol and a cold, don't you DARE buy Nyquil, because high cholesterol exists within your body! Come on. You criticize people when they do something good for the poor of the world. You might want to consider that you might be part of the problem.
- brabblebrex rated 14 months ago
- I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for saying this, but I think the OLPC project is ridiculous. Right now, in many developing nations, getting medicine, clean water, and sufficient amounts of healthy food to everyone is far more necessary than handing out computers. I hope I'm wrong, but last time I checked, Africa has other, more pressing issues at the moment: HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, numerous civil wars, etc. If the children don't live long enough to use the laptops, what's the point?
EDIT: Please do not bother sending me the OLPC's wiki page that addresses this issue. I've already seen it. - I'm probably going to get a lot of flak for saying this, but I think the OLPC project is ridiculous. Right now, in many developing nations, getting medicine, clean water, and sufficient amounts of healthy food to everyone is far more necessary than handing out computers. I hope I'm wrong, but last time I checked, Africa has other, more pressing issues at the moment: HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, numerous civil wars, etc. If the children don't live long enough to use the laptops, what's the point?
- Ytube1 rated 15 months ago
- Wait. Just you wait. Microsoft will find a way to screw this up. Mark my words, children. You'll see.
- nibbler789 rated 15 months ago
- We'll worry about the clean water and polio vaccinations later. Now's time for um, spreadsheets.
"Any nation's most precious natural resource is its children. We believe the emerging world must leverage this resource by tapping into the children's innate capacities to learn, share, and create on their own. Our answer to that challenge is the XO laptop, a children's machine designed for 'learning learning.'"
Children are a resource to be leveraged. Didn't know that. - We'll worry about the clean water and polio vaccinations later. Now's time for um, spreadsheets.
