India rejects One Laptop Per Child

[August]

Originally Posted by tycho102

Well, this is true.

However, it is would also be highly useful if they had a $100 laptop and a $25 satellite internet connection. No rental fees, no contract. Just hook the dish up to the laptop and you've got an instant 2.8KB/s connection to the net.

That's the only thing missing. And then that laptop would have a significant value to it. People out in the boonies of India and China would be able to communicate with the rest of the world (much to the dismay of their governments, I would expect).

However, instructors would be able to learn and refine their own knowledge while trying to train people. And if there were enough laptops, it could easily be a useful intruction tool for things such as reading and mathematics.

Such things managed to be taught before computers, without having to expose children to the mass marketing and other downsides of the internet. I can see Indias point.