I admit to being a little gobstopped by Nicholas Negroponte’s announcment in the Guardian that the next generation OLPC will be Open Hardware is a pretty big deal. I picked up the announcement this morning from Make Magazine editor, Phil Torrone’s twitter feed in which he says “This is pretty much the biggest news of [...] [...]
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By Steve Song, on January 27th, 2009   It is remarkable how polarised the discussion of the OLPC has become. You either love it or hate it. I have already said my own say about the value of the OLPC but there is one point that I don’t think has been emphasised enough. From my perspective, what is insufficiently valued in the discussion [...] [...] By Steve Song, on August 4th, 2008 he One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project comes in for a lot of criticism for being, among other things, “centralised and top-down”. Critics also argue that academia and philanthropy should not be interfering in areas where the market is clearly in a better place both to innovate and to sustain new technologies in the marketplace. [...] [...] |
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