<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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?</font><br>
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<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">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?<br>
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<div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yup, thats the point. The BrainPod is putting it all together in a standardised environment.<br>
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(Thanks for the links, some I was not aware of)<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>On Sunday 30 March 2008, <a href="mailto:ablainey@aol.com">ablainey@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> There you go, if you like the idea, Run with it, improve it or pass<br>
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The BrainPod has been discussed before, see One Laptop Per Child [1] and <br>
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perhaps Project C [2] and Project Gutenberg [3], Wikibooks [4], the <br>
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Open Library Project [5], the Internet Archive [6], and then there's <br>
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lots of software out there like OpenCourseWare [7] and digital online <br>
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blackboards. Really all you need is to just package all of this stuff <br>
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together, maybe Edubuntu? [8]. And then you need a cheap way to make <br>
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the machinery ... or just port it like crazy to everything. :)<br>
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[1] <a target="_blank" href="http://laptop.org/">http://laptop.org/</a><br>
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[2] <a target="_blank" href="http://bazaarmodel.org/">http://bazaarmodel.org/</a><br>
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[3] <a target="_blank" href="http://gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page">http://gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page</a><br>
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[4] <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikibooks.org/">http://en.wikibooks.org/</a><br>
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[5] <a target="_blank" href="http://openlibrary.org/">http://openlibrary.org/</a><br>
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[6] <a target="_blank" href="http://archive.org/">http://archive.org/</a><br>
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[7] <a target="_blank" href="http://ocwfinder.com/">http://ocwfinder.com/</a><br>
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[8] <a target="_blank" href="http://edubuntu.org/">http://edubuntu.org/</a><br>
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