[ExI] BrainPod (was re: the really important urgent issues)

[ablainey at aol.com]

 Bryan , Oops,I forgot to mention one very key point which relates to some of the other examples you made. The BrainPod would be universal. So just like you can use any computer to log on to the weband read your email. you could walk into any BrainPod and log on to your educational space to continue your work. I can imagine banks of them at places like libraries, universities, internet cafes etc. This gets around problems like One laptop per child. Which is great for that child when they get theirs, but what about the kid next door?


 


 I could see porting to every platform being the best way forward rather than specific machinery. why reinvent the wheel and need to update it constantly?

Alex


-----Original Message-----
From: ablainey at aol.com
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Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 3:54
Subject: Re: [ExI] BrainPod (was re: the really important urgent issues)











 
Bryan said:

'Really all you need is to just package all of this stuff 

together'




 Yup, thats the point. The BrainPod is putting it all together in a standardised environment.



(Thanks for the links, some I was not aware of)



Alex





 



-----Original Message-----

From: Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com>

To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>

Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 3:36

Subject: Re: [ExI] BrainPod (was re: the really important urgent issues)













On Sunday 30 March 2008, ablainey at aol.com wrote:

> There you go, if you like the idea, Run with it, improve it or pass

> it to someone that can.



The BrainPod has been discussed before, see One Laptop Per Child [1] and 

perhaps Project C [2] and Project Gutenberg [3], Wikibooks [4], the 

Open Library Project [5], the Internet Archive [6], and then there's 

lots of software out there like OpenCourseWare [7] and digital online 

blackboards. Really all you need is to just package all of this stuff 

together, maybe Edubuntu? [8]. And then you need a cheap way to make 

the machinery ... or just port it like crazy to everything. :)



- Bryan



[1] http://laptop.org/

[2] http://bazaarmodel.org/

[3] http://gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

[4] http://en.wikibooks.org/

[5] http://openlibrary.org/

[6] http://archive.org/

[7] http://ocwfinder.com/

[8] http://edubuntu.org/

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