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we need to broaden the pyramid's base, not narrow its apex.

example: $100 laptops with dynamo cranks and wifi.

solar panels for peasants to power their media centres to keep them entertained after a long day in the fields, and to take the drain off the groaning grids, hastening the end of the dinosaurs who presently stomp on the energy landscape.

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. Chinese Proverb.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Apr 12th, 2006 at 03:23:03 PM EST
There are many projects with this aim out there, fighting the digital divide. Many of them have failed however, because they hadnt anticipated the rapid decline in price of computers in general, which often undercut these projects, because they worked on different time scales.
by Trond Ove on Wed Apr 12th, 2006 at 03:27:56 PM EST
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