[Air-l] Fwd: [school-discuss] $100.00 laptop

[Jeremy Hunsinger]

I agree, if it is a real scam without functionality, vs a knockoff or  
fake with the same or similar functionality, there could be real  
issues.  $100 is still quite a bit of money.    in my mind this $100  
appliance is just a reification or concretization of the have vs the  
have nots.   it isn't built to scale, to progress, to become more  
than it is.  you can't link 10000 together and have a supercomputer  
unless you get some hackers.  my main concern thus is that this  
device constructions an ideal type of user that does not exist and  
isn't really into the market to be 'created' in economic terms.  thus  
a $100 pc is in the end perhaps a fantasy for a non-existent group of  
people that will pay that for it.
On Sep 28, 2005, at 8:13 PM, Joanne Jacobs wrote:


jeremy hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
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