Yay, socialism!
January 17, 20081 comments
Trust a socialist to be totally enamored of the OLPC XO-1:
Yes, it was One Laptop Per Child's XO. The owner, who was being
interviewed by some Web publication, told us that he "really liked" the OLPC and thought it had "great potential" to change the lives of children in the developing world. Then he went on a tangent about how the MacBook Air was too expensive and all we really needed was the OLPC because we could all load free software on it and then the world would be a better place. Then he started talking about how great socialism is. Welcome to San Francisco, but really, isn't he at the wrong conference?
A 433Mhz CPU, 256MB of RAM, 1GB of flash memory for storage. That sounds like a very advanced laptop for 2008. Why third world kids might be able to type up text messages, surf the web, and write hello world applications on it after the operating system gives them a few crumbs of resources to play with. I suppose I wouldn't be so cynical about the OLPC were it not for the fact that its supporters bill it as being almost some sort of mystical device that will unleash third world productivity and education.
Don't forget it is "holistic".