What’s sadder than people in Burundi earning an average of only $90 a year? It might be Bill Gates‘ criticism of MIT’s efforts to bring affordable, networked computers to the poorest countries of the world in hopes of improving education (and communication and healthcare and more).
The challenge is enormous: the technology needs to be durable, require low-power (and be easily rechargeable), as easy to use as an egg timer, have networking in a land without infrastructure, and be cheap, cheap, cheap. Yet somehow, the MIT folks have figured it out, and the project — known to most of us as the $100 laptop project — seems to be on its way to success.
It’s the sort of thing that you’d figure a philanthropic guy like Bill Gates would be on top of. But alas, he seems not to understand. Gizmodo, ArsTechnica, TeleRead, and others are all reporting the world’s richest man went critical over the MIT project.
Posted March 19, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: bill gates, billg, computer, harsh, harsh words, laptop, microsoft, mit laptop, mobile computing, origami, umpc. One Comment.
Between the MIT show and Microsoft’s vaporware, origami is back in a big way. Here’s drumsnwhistles answer: a very crisp green shirt.
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Posted March 10, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Style, Fashion and Food. Tags: crisp, crisp shirt, green, origami, origami shirt, paper, shirt. Be the first one.
Ryan Eby and MAKE magazine alerted me to MIT’s student origami exhibit, in which Jason Ku’s ringwraith won the Best Original Model prize, and Brian Chan’s beaver — the MIT mascot — got special attention from the MIT News Office.
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Posted March 8, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Photoblog. Tags: beaver, competition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mit, nazgul, origami, paper, ringwraith. 5 Comments.
