Negroponte Hints At Paper-Like Design For XO-3
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/1427210/Negroponte-Hints-At-Paper-Like-Design-For-XO-3
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/05/20/1621214/2nd-Generation-100-Laptop-Will-Be-an-E-Book-Reader?art_pos=8
Links w/ Pictures: http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/20/negroponte-unveils-2nd-generation-olpc-laptop-its-an-e-book/
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1429334&cid=29963510
"At the time the last OLPC came to everyone's attention, it was a fairly revolutionary idea. Then Asus released the Eee range and others quickly followed suit. Nearly all of them make the OLPC look like last year's trash and for not much price difference."
Exactly. The lesson here is that if you really want private enterprise to do something, you have to set up a nonprofit to do it first and give it away to poor people. That way, the for-profit companies will think you're threatening their turf (even if they had no intention of doing whatever it is you're doing in the first place), and they'll go out of their way to compete with you (and crush you).
So, I suggest we form a non-profit company called "one trip to Mars for every child" and announce we're going to be designing a spacecraft to take poor children on trips to Mars. I predict Boeing and Lockheed will have competing Martian colonies with twice-daily commuter service within a year.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/11/03/1427210/Negroponte-Hints-At-Paper-Like-Design-For-XO-3
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/08/05/20/1621214/2nd-Generation-100-Laptop-Will-Be-an-E-Book-Reader?art_pos=8
Links w/ Pictures: http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/20/negroponte-unveils-2nd-generation-olpc-laptop-its-an-e-book/
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1429334&cid=29963510
"At the time the last OLPC came to everyone's attention, it was a fairly revolutionary idea. Then Asus released the Eee range and others quickly followed suit. Nearly all of them make the OLPC look like last year's trash and for not much price difference."
Exactly. The lesson here is that if you really want private enterprise to do something, you have to set up a nonprofit to do it first and give it away to poor people. That way, the for-profit companies will think you're threatening their turf (even if they had no intention of doing whatever it is you're doing in the first place), and they'll go out of their way to compete with you (and crush you).
So, I suggest we form a non-profit company called "one trip to Mars for every child" and announce we're going to be designing a spacecraft to take poor children on trips to Mars. I predict Boeing and Lockheed will have competing Martian colonies with twice-daily commuter service within a year.
