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POPSThe Future This is a special report that appeared on Forbes on 10.15.07 and has an impressive list of visionaries talking about the future. highly recommended reading. click the names to read the visions
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POPSFidel Castro Resigns Cuban President Fidel Castro resigned his post today in a letter published in the official Cuban newspaper Granma. This comes as a surprise announcement from the dictator that grabbed power in the New Year's Day 1959 uprising that toppled the regime of General Fulgencio Batista. I've always longhed for the day that the Cuban people would be rid of this monstrous human being. I know there are a lot of people in this country who point to the Cuban health care system and universal literacy as positives in his favor, but the level of hypocrisy displayed by these sentiments are astounding. Any Cuban who dares speak against the Revolution loses their health and literacy when they are brutally murdered by this regime. Not a positive thing if you ask me.
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POPSThe Polarization of Extremes I have to agree with the article. I sometimes take sides after reading some blogs when I normally would not. It's human nature I guess, all of us wants to be right and push our ideas to the extreme if need to, very scary. Very good article.
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POPSField Testing Third World Computers This is a very interesting experiment in access and education. The most interesting part is that the children are expected to fix the computers themselves! Actually, I learned a lot of stuff this way - by tinkering - but is it realistically applicable to all the kids? If it works, it will work brilliantly. It is certainly a new way of networking information. Maybe clipmarks should get in on something like this...
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POPS Pakistan And President Musharraf Mark Steyn
Everyone's an expert :General Musharraf should do this, he shouldn't have done that, the State Department should lean on him to do the other. Furthermore, confident believers in the usual dreary pendulum of Pakistani politics — corrupt democrats, followed by authoritarian generals, followed by corrupt democrats — overlook how profoundly the country's changed. Its political dynamic has a new player: Islamism. Miss Bhutto says, oh, don't worry about that, it's a lot of hooey got up by Musharraf to persuade Washington to prop him up for another half-decade. Pakistan is not Persia. For one thing, it's a country only 60 years old whose slapdash creation was one of the worst disasters of British imperial policy. Yet even those who thought so at the time would be astonished to find that, a mere couple of generations on, a regional afterthought is not only a nuclear power that has dispersed its technology around the planet but also a driving force of the world's first global insurgency.
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POPS$100 laptop hits $200 One of the hopes was to provide economies of scale. Reducing price through volumes that were expected to be ordered. The orders have not been as great as hoped, and few details of the orders have been disclosed. Wayan Volta, an expert on using technology to promote economic development, said the original $100 price tag was unrealistic, and the low figure has damaged the credibility of the development. I was thinking, and it is no doubt happening to a point, that with the short life span of a laptop and P.C.s in the west, purely through the introduction of a more advanced model, there would be great scope for the scrubbing and recycling of laptops, as opposed to them becoming toxic waste. They could use linux.
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POPS Blocking Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions As the new member of the policy team, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte has been given this assignment. His task is to start afresh and to reexamine our position today, our national interests, and our options. Specifically, the President and the Secretary have asked Negroponte to be inventive in exploring options between acquiescence and attack that best protect and advance American national interests. The task is to be inventive, to be prepared to use all the sticks and carrots in the American arsenal, and, indeed, everything in the international arsenal that can feasibly be mobilized to this end. Our operational objective, the President reiterated, is to prevent Iran acquiring nuclear weapons within the foreseeable future, by which he said he means at least five years.
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POPSone laptop per I've wanted one of these since I read about the final product. ultimate machines for the cost - check the specs in eweek or other places
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POPS77 Highlights of Bush's first year in Office 9. Suspended rules that would have strengthened the government's ability to deny contracts to companies that violated workplace safety, environmental and other federal laws. 10. OK'd Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to send out letters to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting. 11. Appointed John Negroponte - an un-indicted high-level Iran Contra figure to the post of United Nations Ambassador. 12. Abandoned a campaign pledge to invest $100 million for rain forest conservation. The rest are at the site
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POPS$100 Laptop Production Begins From the page: "The innovative design of the XO machine has also drawn praise from the technical community. Using open source software, OLPC have developed a stripped-down operating system which fits comfortably on the machine's 1GB of memory. "We made a set of trade-offs which may not be an office worker's needs but are more than adequate for what kids need for learning, exploring and having fun," said Professor Bender."
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POPSIntel Makes A Charitable Contribution One Laptop per Child founder Nicholas Negroponte had previously accused Intel of trying to undermine the philanthropy's goal of providing computers to children in the developing world by marketing it's own sub $100 laptop, the Classmate PC. --Ann Rafalko
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POPSThe competitive edge of the $100 Computer Questions from the TriLUG members are mostly about the hardware and the massive logistics of the project as a whole. How are millions of laptops going to be distributed? How will the organizers prevent them from being stolen and sold on the black market? Why is the notoriously corrupt government of Nigeria one of the first partner nations? How will kids be protected from Internet porn—or from adults who use the laptops to exploit children?
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