Negroponte, OLPC, AAAS, obese electronics

[Paul Lussier]

Ted Roche <tedroche at tedroche.com> writes:

> Interesting post about Nicholas Negroponte's keynote at the AAAS annual 
> meeting. I like the phrase 'obese electronics.'

I don't.  It sounds like a pompous, ivory-tower intellectual spouting
off about things he knows nothing about.

Electronics are not obese.  They are getting faster and smaller all the time.
Electronics is a cut-throat industry with incredibly small margins as it is.
What is obese is software, not hardware.

The OLPC ultimately failed because of market economics.  It may have
been a great piece of hardware, but because they were unwilling to
sell to those who actually wanted to buy, and because they could not
otherwise deliver paying customers, the rest of the market reacted and
stole their thunder and now the OLPC is the One Laptop People Can't
have.

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Seeya,
Paul