Difference between revisions of "Reflections on Semantic Web and Alipi"
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| − | This week Steve Jobs passed away at the far-too-young-for-anyone-to-die age of 56, and India launched Aakash, a tablet computer seen by many as the ipad-killer, the restoftheworld's rejoinder to OLPC's xo laptop. Telecoms and Education Minister Kapil Sibal said today: "The rich have access to the digital world, the poor and ordinary have been excluded. Aakash will end that digital divide." | + | This week Steve Jobs passed away at the far-too-young-for-anyone-to-die age of 56, and India launched Aakash, a tablet computer seen by many as the ipad-killer, the restoftheworld's rejoinder to OLPC's xo laptop. Steve Jobs was truly brilliant, and had a unique, rarecombination of geek and design talent. His work represents some of the best moves in technology of our age. Will the next age be even better, with brilliantly designed technology being accessible not only to elites in the rich North, but to the many millions of the rising South? |
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| + | Telecoms and Education Minister Kapil Sibal said today: "The rich have access to the digital world, the poor and ordinary have been excluded. Aakash will end that digital divide." | ||
| + | India has a long history of appropriate-technology design: e.g., the creators of the simputer should also be remembered as precursors to this moment. Even if their design did not directly make it to the commercial market, it is experiments such as theirs that made other steps forward become possible. | ||
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2011 Oct 6
This week Steve Jobs passed away at the far-too-young-for-anyone-to-die age of 56, and India launched Aakash, a tablet computer seen by many as the ipad-killer, the restoftheworld's rejoinder to OLPC's xo laptop. Steve Jobs was truly brilliant, and had a unique, rarecombination of geek and design talent. His work represents some of the best moves in technology of our age. Will the next age be even better, with brilliantly designed technology being accessible not only to elites in the rich North, but to the many millions of the rising South?
Telecoms and Education Minister Kapil Sibal said today: "The rich have access to the digital world, the poor and ordinary have been excluded. Aakash will end that digital divide." India has a long history of appropriate-technology design: e.g., the creators of the simputer should also be remembered as precursors to this moment. Even if their design did not directly make it to the commercial market, it is experiments such as theirs that made other steps forward become possible.
