Comments on: Mobilize 2010: Negroponte Sees Tablets as Creative Tool

By: Sengemo

Sengemo — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:21:27 +0000

Pixel Qi’s continued involvement with OLPC is laughable. Mary Lou Jepsen has no interest in children as evidenced in the treatment of her own step children. They were barely in their teens when she began her pursuit of their married father. She continues to be completely self serving.

By: Charbax

Charbax — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:45:01 +0000

Not every one of the 1.5 billion children OLPC is targeting is starving. It’s not either or. We need to improve education everywhere, it has to be a huge priority.

OLPC created the Netbook market. And just them threatening to make a tablet creates the tablet market.

By: FTM

FTM — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 06:14:13 +0000

An interesting thought this. ‘Will normal market forces do what I’m doing today?’ — and if the answer is yes, then stop.”

What a fine way to explain away OLPC! I’ve heard about how netbooks are an avatar of OLPC, but this articulation is even more clever.

Come to think of it, OLPC is overrated (by the media at large) and “normal market forces” are underrated (by certain academics).

By: Sascha Pallenberg

Sascha Pallenberg — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:05:08 +0000

unfortunately we had no time for q&q after negropontes session cause i would have loved to ask him how the kids in africa or india are able to eat a piece of plastic and silicon.
i really love idealism but sometimes it can turn out to be pretty pathetic.
and to be honest, the olpc-tablet prototype will have the same problem as the olpc (even though they sold almost 2 millions of it), means they won’t be able to build it with these features for the estimated price. this is pure marketing!

instead of delivering hardware to rural parts of the world, where the people need way more existantially goods, we should ship them to our kids, so we can educate them to share in the future and not to rape these so cald “third world countries” anymore. This would make a difference and would help these kids down there.

yes, education is the key but i would prefer to feed a child that is close to die because of hunger and then educate it!

By: Charbax

Charbax — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:06:44 +0000

I posted about it here: http://armdevices.net/2010/10/01/nicholas-negroponte-keynote-at-the-mobilize-conference-give-every-american-child-a-tablet/

I hope to be able to film the 7″ 4:3 Pixel Qi and Marvell Armada 628 OLPC $75 XO-3 tablet prototype at the upcoming CES.

They should definitely convince India and China to use Pixel Qi in their educational tablets, no matter what. 50 hours battery instead of 10 hours, e-ink quality and sunlight readability is a huge difference.

By: Nicholas Negroponte keynote at the Mobilize conference: Give Every American Child a Tablet – ARMdevices.net

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:25:08 +0000

[...] Filmed at the Mobilize conference organized by gigaom: http://gigaom.com/2010/09/30/mobilize-2010-negroponte-sees-tablets-as-creative-tool/ [...]

By: Brian S Hall

Brian S Hall — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:12:24 +0000

One *Smartphone* Per Child!