La idea no es tan importante como la forma en la que esta se lleva a cabo – una premisa básica del diseño – se ajusta perfectamente al proyecto “One Laptop per child”. El mismo está pensando otorgar Herramientas a largo plazo y no soluciones inmediatas.
Ignorando la presión de Mr. Gates y de Mr. Jobs, las laptops correrán Linux, en lugar de versiones gratuitas de Windows u OS/X. e incluirán aplicaciones de desarrollo brindando la posibilidad de crecer utilizando sus propios programas.
Tendrán una manivela la cual con 5 minutos de cuerda generarán 40 minutos de batería, entre otros desarrollos innovadores, más información sobre el proyecto.
Entrevista a Negroponte sobre el proyecto en la Wired (revista fundada por el)
Not only did we fail to imagine what the Web would become, we still don't see it today! We are blind to the miracle it has blossomed into. And as a result of ignoring what the Web really is, we are likely to miss what it will grow into over the next 10 years. Any hope of discerning the state of the Web in 2015 requires that we own up to how wrong we were 10 years ago.
The memories of an early enthusiast like myself can be unreliable, so I recently spent a few weeks reading stacks of old magazines and newspapers. Any promising new invention will have its naysayers, and the bigger the promises, the louder the nays. It's not hard to find smart people saying stupid things about the Internet on the morning of its birth. In late 1994, Time magazine explained why the Internet would never go mainstream: "It was not designed for doing commerce, and it does not gracefully accommodate new arrivals." Newsweek put the doubts more bluntly in a February 1995 headline: "THE INTERNET? BAH!" The article was written by astrophysicist and Net maven Cliff Stoll, who captured the prevailing skepticism of virtual communities and online shopping with one word: "baloney."
The accretion of tiny marvels can numb us to the arrival of the stupendous. Today, at any Net terminal, you can get: an amazing variety of music and video, an evolving encyclopedia, weather forecasts, help wanted ads, satellite images of anyplace on Earth, up-to-the-minute news from around the globe, tax forms, TV guides, road maps with driving directions, real-time stock quotes, telephone numbers, real estate listings with virtual walk-throughs, pictures of just about anything, sports scores, places to buy almost anything, records of political contributions, library catalogs, appliance manuals, live traffic reports, archives to major newspapers - all wrapped up in an interactive index that really works.
