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One Laptop Per Child

by Marc Lefton
Thursday, July 27, 2006. 01:31PM
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What do you think this means for marketing opportunities? Will this get subsidized by advertisers and gameplay? Will kids be able to download porn on it? All I can say is I wish they had this when I was in school and when does the Mac version come out?

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Monday, August 7, 2006. 08:10PM by Mark Roberts
I have been working on print, collateral and presentation graphics for AMD's 50x15 initiative, which is a push to get 50% of the world to be online by 2015. They have finished product here: http://50x15.com/en-us/sol_tech_pic.... even has a version that you can hand crank. Pretty crazy.
Wednesday, August 2, 2006. 05:51PM by Kim S
too true...
Wednesday, August 2, 2006. 09:20AM by Marc Lefton
Kim, don't expect me to handwrite you a letter anytime soon - my handwriting is done. :) But my best friend in elementary school had handwriting so bad that his parents bought him a Commodore 64. So I'm not sure if this will be anything new or just making a growing trend worse. I was always good at spelling but the computer and its nasty little red underline has kept me from being overconfident with words I was convinced I did spell correctly. I suppose this is meant more as a way to quickly get research but I think it still makes people much less resourceful. There is this place, after all, called a library where there are these things called "books" which have information that's not on the net....
Wednesday, August 2, 2006. 08:48AM by Kim S
Believe it or not, do you think this may contribute to the dumbing down of America's kids? Penmanship - where art thou? Grammar, spelling, punctuation - the computer can spot the mistakes and offer changes - I guess this is good - or will the kids just push the button and move on? Now-a-days I think school kids still have to use the old #2. Won't be writing "in-class" papers without a printer...
Thursday, July 27, 2006. 07:45PM by michael Iva
What do you think this means for marketing opportunities? ////THERE WILL BE MORE OF THEM////Will this get subsidized by advertisers and gameplay? ///// YES ///// Will kids be able to download porn on it? ///// YES//// All I can say is I wish they had this when I was in school //// ME TOO //// and when does the Mac version come out?

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