[MD] Techno-Transcendance

[John Carl]

Krimel,
I'm enthusiastic about your entusiasm.

I too, got on board the internet train early.  I also got involved with
community networking and tried to accomplish the one-laptop-per-child goals
with old apple powerbooks and the Chernobyl Children's Project.  I didn't go
very far with it, but I did get a direct dial-up connection between
California and Belarus for a bit.

When the real one laptop per child project came along, I was glad to see it.
 But there was one aspect of the whole project that was being overlooked -
engineers are hardware junkies.  They focused all their geekery on the
machine and nobody really pays much attention to what goes on the machine.
 I believe the greatest potential lies in training children.  The greatest
waste is unused processing power of the human brain.  I used to tell people
who didn't understand the internet that the magic wasn't in the ability of
networking machines, the magic is the ability to network human brains.

John




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