The $100 laptop closer to reality

[agabriel at home.tzo.org (Anthony Gabrielson)]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, Brendan wrote:
> I actually have some experience with distance learning...but that's so beside 
> the point.
> 
> I think you are going REALLY far away from the core points...we were talking 
> about cheap laptops and how they planned to implement them.

Great lets sum it up quickly.  Kids who not otherwise be able to learn would 
be able to get up to date text quickly.  They would be able to get 
enough information to research other subjects and get that information as 
well.  It would equalize them and give them an educated out of the poverty 
they live in.  That is a good thing - black and white, even implemented 
poorly.

I do not think I missed the points, in fact I hit everyone of them.  
Society needs people that are able to learn enough to get a particular job 
done properly and quickly - the internet helps enable that.  Please pardon 
my grammar, although I am college educated, my folks aren't.  When other 
students, whose parents were college educated, needed help with subjects 
they could get it at home.  Thats a benefit you had,  many do not.  The 
internet and computers can benefit those people.  Maybe thats the real 
point here.  Enabling someone to get an education where there they 
otherwise could not.  Thats powerful stuff.

Anthony