"MIT developing $100 laptops for children"

[Wunderchu]

http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=27766&category=main

direct link: http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/04/04/hundred.dollar.laptops.ap/index.html

 

[Guden Oden]

Sounds great, but I wonder if PCs really are what these people need first and foremost. Do they have clean water and sanitation for example? How about decent housing? Food on the table every day, etc?

 

[London Geezer]

Sounds great, but I wonder if PCs really are what these people need first and foremost. Do they have clean water and sanitation for example? How about decent housing? Food on the table every day, etc?

Who needs water when you can play HL2 all day?! The kids will move less therefore they'll need less water and food It's genius!!

 

[silence]

Sounds great, but I wonder if PCs really are what these people need first and foremost. Do they have clean water and sanitation for example? How about decent housing? Food on the table every day, etc?

Who needs water when you can play HL2 all day?! The kids will move less therefore they'll need less water and food It's genius!!

YEAH....and one brother can work on in room bycycle so the other can play...and then they change places every 30 mins.....

(i pitty the one that gets tired and laptop runs out of power just as older brother is about to kill final boss)......

yap, purely genius....

 

[London Geezer]

Sounds great, but I wonder if PCs really are what these people need first and foremost. Do they have clean water and sanitation for example? How about decent housing? Food on the table every day, etc?

Who needs water when you can play HL2 all day?! The kids will move less therefore they'll need less water and food It's genius!!

YEAH....and one brother can work on in room bycycle so the other can play...and then they change places every 30 mins.....

(i pitty the one that gets tired and laptop runs out of power just as older brother is about to kill final boss)......

yap, purely genius....

Infinite energy!!!

 

[The549]

Well, I didn't expect MIT to create some super-food stamps anyway. Kudos to them.

 

[Guden Oden]

Nice thread derail... Or more like trainwreck, perhaps?

 

[silence]

Nice thread derail... Or more like trainwreck, perhaps?

and you expected people to stay on topic for...how long?

 

[digitalwanderer]

Ok, if someone makes a $100 laptop for kids anyone wanna take bets on how many over 21 year old kids buy one?

 

[Guden Oden]

They're not going to be sold, they're meant to be GIVEN away. Like these people have $100 anyway when the brightest object in their house is the LCD screen.

 

[Deepak]

Sounds great, but I wonder if PCs really are what these people need first and foremost. Do they have clean water and sanitation for example? How about decent housing? Food on the table every day, etc?

And how are they both related? Both are seperate issues which should be dealt accordingly.

 

[Guden Oden]

Why would they be separate issues? Where do you start building a house - roof or foundation?

If these kids don't have basic neccessities, why are we spending money buying computers for them, that'd be just stupid.

 

[London Geezer]

Why would they be separate issues? Where do you start building a house - roof or foundation?

If these kids don't have basic neccessities, why are we spending money buying computers for them, that'd be just stupid.

Well obviously they're not giving laptops to starving babies in Sudan with a 2 year life expectancy!

 

[jvd]

wait , mit is giving 100$ laptops away in exchange for children ? Did they find a way to power americas energy needs by using poor children ?

These men are smarter than I thought

 

[Humus]

Why would they be separate issues? Where do you start building a house - roof or foundation?

If these kids don't have basic neccessities, why are we spending money buying computers for them, that'd be just stupid.

So we should wait with this kind of help because other stuff is not fully solved yet? In the long run giving computers to these kids is bound to do a lot more for their development than food handouts. It's the "give a man a fish"/"learn fishing" thing. It helps with their education and builds a foundation to grow an economy on.