http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/ Engadget Comments for OLPC now called the 2B1, still The Children's Machine http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/Aug 28th 2006 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/
I don't think countries with starving children will be buying these. These are more for counties lacking First world tech. Countries like rural China, parts or India, and Greece.]]>Aug 28th 2006 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/Aug 28th 2006 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/Aug 28th 2006 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/
The hope is that by exposing children to technology at a young age they will be able to get better jobs (or just jobs period) in the future, which will help everyone (well, possibly not the people that could be hurt by outsourcing) as well as a teaching tool for other educational topics. There are lots of brains out there ripe for technology, they just need a chance (*thinks of all the great computer-related minds to come out of the former-USSR*).

- Tony R.]]>Aug 28th 2006 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/search/?q=olpc]]>Aug 28th 2006 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/Aug 28th 2006 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/Aug 28th 2006 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/Sep 20th 2006 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/Aug 28th 2006 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/
You're right, the US probably won't buy that many.

]]>Aug 28th 2006 1:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/
The entire point is that countries are neglecting the immediate need for human aid, but that in addition to providing food, these laptops will give the children an opportunity to learn at a more efficient and faster rate than conventional methods, empowering them in the long run to change their situation.

Nobody's denying that there are starving people out there, but let's give them a hand up instead of a hand down, shall we?]]>Aug 28th 2006 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/Aug 28th 2006 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/http://www.engadget.com/2006/08/28/olpc-now-called-the-2b1-still-the-childrens-machine/ Posted at 11:32AM on Aug 28th 2006 by mike p
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> soon we will see cases of people trying to eat them
> becuase there country thought this was more important
> then food

Maybe if you had one of these laptops when you were a kid, you'd understand the differences between there/their and then/than.
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I think some of you are failing to understand how much $100 is in exactly the places this thing would be used.

And whoever said rural China, India, etc.--these people don't have PLUMBING and you want to give them a notebook computer?!]]>Aug 29th 2006 12:46PM