{"id":118,"date":"2007-12-05T22:48:54","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T22:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/?p=118"},"modified":"2007-12-05T22:48:54","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T22:48:54","slug":"one-laptop-per-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/one-laptop-per-child\/","title":{"rendered":"One Laptop Per Child"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"party<\/a>I’m very fortunate to be in LA right now – the last few days I’ve been in San Francisco. Bragging aside, today I’ve had a chance to play with one of the final units of the One Laptop Per Child<\/a> scheme over lunch here at the TTI Vanguard Nextgen Technologies<\/a> conference.<\/p>\n

The interesting thing is the conversation around the lunch table as we played with it – apart from a major downer on the Apple iPhone (seriously guys what’s your problem?) – there was a general feeling that the project would fail because no-one would know how to use the thing – and look at it, ‘it’s so damn ugly – who’s going to use that?’<\/p>\n

BBC News has quite a nice audio slideshow<\/a> talking through what happens when it actually turns up in an African village.<\/p>\n

From my point of view I found it incredibly difficult to use… it didn’t want to connect to the wi-fi and I couldn’t work out how to access the settings to change things. Then there’s no really easy menu to use, then the keyboard is really strange – nothing is where it should be – and finally there are those silly ‘ears’ that are meant to extend it’s wi-fi range.<\/p>\n

But actually… this laptop isn’t meant for me… why would a kid in Africa want to access the wi-fi settings, mess around with the IP address or get under bonnet? They wouldn’t – this is the ultimate ‘just works’ device. Once I gave up trying to ‘work out how to get it working’ and ‘just used it’ – everything came together and for the first time since I picked up a mac I’d found something that is going to have a major impact on the world.<\/p>\n

How long before Microsoft, Apple and the various mainstream ‘nix distros have to take a look at the user interaction methods of this device and shift their own systems to match?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m very fortunate to be in LA right now – the last few days I’ve been in San Francisco. Bragging aside, today I’ve had a chance to play with one of the final units of the One Laptop Per Child scheme over lunch here at the TTI Vanguard Nextgen Technologies conference. The interesting thing is … Continue reading “One Laptop Per Child”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olpc","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelondonbiker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}