Comments on: Negroponte on the New (lowercase): olpc

By: Wayan @ OLPC News

Wayan @ OLPC News — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:26:41 +0000

Funny that Negroponte is taking this line now. At OLPC News, we declared the post-OLPC era, where its the olpc Negroponte is talking about, back in May of last year. And Negroponte's words don't match his actions - OLPC just canceled small deployment support.

By: whiteafrican (Erik Hersman)

whiteafrican (Erik Hersman) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:07:37 +0000

Posts up on Negroponte at #TED: by me http://is.gd/iKHx and by @ethanz at http://is.gd/iKHG

By: Erica Kochi

Erica Kochi — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:24:30 +0000

somehow this makes me laugh then cry a little… Talk about missing the point

By: Meryn Stol

Meryn Stol — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:04:18 +0000

Well I think that the “decentralized” innovation that we’ve seen with Netbooks has beaten OLPC. OLCP was only one design team. Of course, with an open source design approach, OLPC could do better eventually, but only if they manage to get enough competent designers on board, which are currently quite likely all happily employed by netbook manufacturers.

Open design is surely the future, but that doesn’t mean there are no obstacles to be overcome…

It would be interesting though if the OLPC guys would engage with engineering schools and make a design competition for engineering students there. That could bring in many fresh ideas. If this is “sold” right, I think many students would want to contribute to such an effort.