NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoup.org - $100 Laptop

在net2上第一次开blog

wygg — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:26:41 -0400

今天第一次上这个网站

Where can I find the presentations?

Partha — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:13:19 -0400

Where can I get the presentation that was shown this morning on 100$ laptop?

Partha

Too much good stuff

patrickdelaney — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:05:11 -0400

This is impossible to keep up with. Great session on the Media Lab's $100 Laptop. Michail Bletsas and Michael Brown. Highlights:

50% of the world's kids don't have electricity at home
learning happens not just with teachers - learning happens with communicating and doing
the internet was not meant to be mediated by servers (Shades of Mark Bernstein's puzzlement at educators' concern about hosting from edBlogger 2003. Is there never any progress?)
main goal is to get the kids to create their own content
teachers are the bottleneck - building a teacher infrastructure is a waste of time, they learn slower - best to get them out of the way

And OK, OK, once again the emphasis on hand-helds, on cell phones. I resist and resist and it's probably time to cave in and buy one. For what - spam students with news of new library books? spam staff with news of summer tech training opportunities? Hah!

Net2Con: $100 Laptop

xicanista — Wed, 31 May 2006 12:33:31 -0400

What's next for the $100 laptop?

Improving the operating system (currently a linux core) and installing a wiki server on each laptop for the collection of information.

I love the idea of the wiki. The community can centralize its knowledge and make it available to others. What an amazing way to empower people that have to cope with survival daily.

Net2Con: $100 Laptop

xicanista — Wed, 31 May 2006 12:27:04 -0400

I'm geeking out right now.

I heard the crowd give a hushed "wow"!

When the $100 laptop is closed it continues to act as a router for all of the laptops in the village. If one laptop gains a connection to the internet all the laptops gain access through the peer network. This means even when the laptop is "off" it is not really "off". It is running on a low level of energy to keep the network in tact.

If a woman or girl needs examples of how technology can have a postive impact on the world's people, this project is it.

Net2Con: $100 Laptop

xicanista — Wed, 31 May 2006 12:18:47 -0400

The $100 laptop does not have a harddisk. The designers of the $100 laptop found that hd's are one of the first things that often break in a computer. To get around this problem they are using Flash memory.

Flash memory is a solid-state memory. In the most basic way that means it has no moving parts. The iPod uses it.

Over the last several months I've wondered why I have such a "big" hd on my laptop. I have 60 GB, but honestly I don't use it so often now. I put my documents on servers - at work, my isp, services like snapfish. Really all I need regularly is an internet connection, a browser and a place on the web I can lay my docs.

Why Should This Be A Priority?

taylormk — Wed, 31 May 2006 00:07:23 -0400

How does this impact eWaste?

Marnie Webb — Wed, 17 May 2006 13:04:11 -0400

Internet Access

Mark Liu — Wed, 10 May 2006 15:40:31 -0400

Internet Access

Mark Liu — Wed, 10 May 2006 15:28:59 -0400

How do you plan to deal with the problem of expensive internet access?