{{ a good library with a bunch of desktops and a great library skills teacher is the answer }}
How many books can be stored on a 500 GB drive? Every home can have a great library now. A computer can search any word sequence. Libraries are obsolete. A laptop shud B a good portable book reader. Kids could send questions wirelessly 2 teachers.
{{{ Computers are just tools, and unless there's a fundamental change ..no amount of technology...is going to help. }}}
I think there is a way to make them a revolution. I used science fiction books to learn about science and the nuns had science books they never gave us. There are free sci-fi books for download in the Gutenberg Project. Download them and use these computers as book readers.
{{ a good library with a bunch of desktops and a great library skills teacher is the answer }}
How many books can be stored on a 500 GB drive? Every home can have a great library now. A computer can search any word sequence. Libraries are obsolete. A laptop shud B a good portable book reader. Kids could send questions wirelessly 2 teachers.
Sum ppl don't want to give up obsolete methods.
3 flood inner city schools with OLPC machines - about 1 month ago
{{{ Computers are just tools, and unless there's a fundamental change ..no amount of technology...is going to help. }}}
I think there is a way to make them a revolution. I used science fiction books to learn about science and the nuns had science books they never gave us. There are free sci-fi books for download in the Gutenberg Project. Download them and use these computers as book readers.
3 flood inner city schools with OLPC machines - about 1 month ago
Do you want to make it illegal to be a moron?
We would have 75% of the population in prison.
0 give cotton candy and free unicorns to everyone - about 1 month ago
Make accounting mandatory in the schools.
How much do Americans lose on DEPRECIATION of automobiles every year? Where is the econometric data on that?
Economists are lying morons.
0 Re-educate Americans to consume less - about 1 month ago
Down with Macro$cam!
LOL
0 standardise on Microsoft solutions - about 1 month ago
Good idea. I've got one. The keyboard is annoying but it is more rugged than a lot of more xpensive laptops.
Oprah spent $40 million on a school for 152 girls. She could have gotten 200,000 OLPCs for that. DUMB!!!
3 flood inner city schools with OLPC machines - about 1 month ago
That sounds reasonable.
0 Make all non-classified taxpayer-funded software open source - about 1 month ago
It is certainly telling that banks can do this with ATM machines and the government with nuclear weapons can't.
2 Ensure reliable & trustworthy election technologies - about 1 month ago
Eliminate this unconstitutional trash.
2 ensure our privacy and repeal the patriot act. - about 1 month ago
It is 39 years after the moon landing. It is totally absurd that most Americans can't figure out that planned obsolescence is going on in automobiles.
Galbraith talked about it in 1959.
Even politicians should know about it by now.
0 Ensure science is an educational priority - about 1 month ago