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yoniluvrca said:
Here is a link to a short docu about the $100 Laptop project.

My question: Does the world really need a $100 Laptop? I kept scrtaching my head while watching it and wondering about maybe reducing hunger in the world first. And maybe it is not an either/or thing.

Any thoughts? Comments?
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WHERE THE FRIG IS THE LINK?????????????:eek:
 
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A great idea.

Who actualy needs a $2000.00 one.
 
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Would work for my son-in-law. Had his $1,000+ unit stolen from his car while at Leafs game last night.

Not sure if he was more pissed about the laptop or the losss!

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I don't see it as an either/or decision, this is a useful project to increase connectedness around the world. The money saved by someone can help a starving child in another country if they choose to.

I see many other projects that are more expensive and destructive.
 
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What we really need is a laptop battery with some sort of reasonable life.

I think they can take a break on developing computers for a while and work on developing some practical power sources.

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JoyfulC said:
What we really need is a laptop battery with some sort of reasonable life.

I think they can take a break on developing computers for a while and work on developing some practical power sources.

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They can make one but would you be willing to pay 300 or more for the battery. Current technology used in pacemakers could provide a powerfull long lasting capasitor able to deliver sustained power for days.
 
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Thanks for the links Stace! Been looking around.

As for why? Why would you even ask this? The digital divide prevents people helping themselves rather than waiting for the First World Nations to give them handouts. Education can feed people faster than Redcross can steal it.

For more about this type of thinking look to India and ask why they are developing a small hand-held that their poor farmers can use to predict growing seasons, without ever having seen technology before!

Go to Africa to see villages with a solar array that that feed a single light bulb and a freezer. Amazing how life can be made a little easier, when you food doesn't spoil in the heat. How cell phones can call in flying doctors, before people die.

Technology doesn't have to supplant food or monitary aid does it? The $100 laptop is not for us, it for people that wish their lives could be easier.
 
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papasmerf said:
They can make one but would you be willing to pay 300 or more for the battery. Current technology used in pacemakers could provide a powerfull long lasting capasitor able to deliver sustained power for days.
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When you look at what we pay for laptops (vs. desktops), SURE I would!

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JoyfulC said:
When you look at what we pay for laptops (vs. desktops), SURE I would!

..c..
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Personaly I like the idea of a 100 dollar one
 
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I believe the whole projects main idea was to even the playing field in education by opening up the third world to information....... great idea by empowering maybe they can raise themselves from poverty.
Majority of the worlds population has only heard of the internet......
 
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