[IxDA Discuss] Kindle

[Jorge Arango]

On Nov 19, 2007 4:02 PM, pauric <radiorental at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Until Amazon offer a device to the developing world (and make it
> 802.11 not evdo) for everyone sold here, as the OLPC project has done,
> then I dont buy the your argument.

Yeah, but we gotta start *somewhere*. The OLPC is at the tail end of a
development process that has been going on for at least two decades,
if not longer. The Kindle and other currently available ereaders are
to this technology what the Osborne I is to the OLPC.

IMO the biggest payoff will come not from the devices themselves, but
from the digitization of books. We need devices like the Kindle in
order to kickstart this process into high gear.

> Also, I dont see how an e-reader
> helps someone who cant read or write... laptops & teachers address
> that problem.

I agree with you (though I don't know about the value of about laptops
in this scenario) ... still, I think the ereaders have a huge role to
play once literacy is a part of the equation.

Cheers,

-- Jorge