Via GrampaPinhead, the $100 laptop for Third World schoolkids.
The referenced articles don't answer the two most important questions: Does the screen have high enough resolution for serious pr0n usage by the cannon-fodder thugs of Third World strongmen, and is it equipped with WiFi for the surreptitious uploading of "419 Scam" emails through the local missionary school's network?
I guess it's easy, when coming up with a visionary system to wire every dusty schoolyard from Moyobamba to Mbala, to forget that no nascent computing technology seems to catch on with us great unwashed un-visionary types until it's adept at three things: Games, Porn, and Email.
You're so cynical.
ReplyDeleteI mean, how could equipping the little urchins with hardware that cost more than a year's wages in their country have any *negative* effects?
I mean, surely the adults won't, like, take 'em away and sell 'em on the black market, and kill the mucnhkins for 'em if necessary....right?
I am boldly predicting that the very first internet connection from one of these things will be from the private in charge of President-For-Life Corporal M'bekebeke's motorpool, hitting priceline.com to get the best price for tires on the presidential Gelandewagen.
ReplyDeleteI notice they're in no big rush to get them to the poor kids over here, where we could actually see firsthand how fast they turn up in pawnshops and what their street value in crack is.
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