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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte gives Big Brother a whole new meaning...

• mechanical_fish 18y ago
  I hadn't actually realized that these two Negropontes were related... I'm also not convinced that it's relevant. You can choose your friends, and you can choose your philosophies, but you can't choose your relatives.
  • Create 18y ago
    But you can choose your employer (unless you are a slave, which doesn't apply here, being [] shipping magnates). It is so simple; so elementary, that most people don't see it (e.g. think of mass-energy relationship). MIT's primary goals and funding agencies are well known, and so are the little one's scientific achievements, supposedly securing him a place among "the great". Also look @ at the goals of the OLPC, as the whole concept (not as a cheap notebook with little green ears). It is written publicly in B&W: "At its core, our journal concept embodies the idea that the file system records a history of the things a child has done, or, more specifically, the activities in which a child has participated. Its function as the store of the objects created while performing those activities is secondary, although also important. The Journal naturally lends itself to a chronological organization (although it can be tagged, SEARCHED, and sorted by a variety of means). As a record of things a child has done—not just the things a child has saved—the Journal will read much like a portfolio or scrapbook history of the child's interactions with the machine and also with peers. The Journal combines entries explicitly created by the children with those that are IMPLICITLY CREATED through participation in activities. [...] Each machine is a full-time wireless router. Children in the most remote regions of the globe—as well as their teachers and families—will be connected both to one another AND to the Internet." http://laptop.org/en/laptop/interface/principles.shtml http://laptop.org/en/laptop/interface/principles.shtml "It's data that's practically a printout of what's going on in your brain: What you are thinking of buying, who you talk to, what you talk about." --Kevin Bankston, staff attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation go and figure the rest. Guido's colonisation parallel with conversion to Christianity / XP / Whatever is also very apparent: practically all "orders" are from "client states". The ones likely to vote in favour of the MS Office format to be an ISO standard. Advancing (computer?) literacy in MIT's backyard would be a more ambitious goal ;) Or as they say, in soviet Russia, the employer chooses you ;)
    • gojomo 18y ago
      For a critical look at the OLPC security model as an avenue for surveillance, this paper is interesting: "Freezing More Than Bits: Chilling Effects of the OLPC XO Security Model" by Meredith L. Patterson, Len Sassaman, David Chaum http://www.usenix.org/event/upsec08/tech/full_papers/patterson/patterson_html/ http://www.usenix.org/event/upsec08/tech/full_papers/patters...
• wumi 18y ago
  "He is the elder brother of Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab and of the One Laptop per Child project. His brother Michel Negroponte is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, and his other brother, George Negroponte, is an artist." Conspiracy theories? Do you have more information on the nefarious connection between Nick and John -- I'd actually be interested if this were a legitimate concern.