[Graeme]

Tablet Computer for $35 or Less Developed in India

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')ndia has developed a touchscreen tablet computer with an estimated retail price of $35, and possibly less. India Minister Kapil Sibal said the tablet is an answer to the One Laptop Per Child tablet, which has a $99 target price. India's tablet is solar powered and uses Linux and open-source software. An analyst said it could be a throwaway tablet.

[americandream]

Throwaway tablet! Bingo. I rest my case about capitalism and it's propensity to leak finite resources.

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b] He has told news media that the goal is to eventually get the price closer to $10.

[americandream]

Buy now, pay later.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Sixstrings', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')b] He has told news media that the goal is to eventually get the price closer to $10.

[Tyler_JC]

Who knows how many potential Michelangelos, Rembrandts, Hawkings, Einsteins, etc. died in obscurity on some rice paddy somewhere, never having the opportunity to achieve greatness?

We can't ignore the incredible advances that mankind is making.

We may soon be reaching an era in which many (if not most!) of the world's people have the opportunity to communicate with each other and create previously unimaginable wonders.

Yes, the bottom two or three billion still live in horrendous poverty but life is starting to get better for everyone else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI&feature=channel

[Sixstrings]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'W')ho knows how many potential Michelangelos, Rembrandts, Hawkings, Einsteins, etc. died in obscurity on some rice paddy somewhere, never having the opportunity to achieve greatness?

We can't ignore the incredible advances that mankind is making.

[Tyler_JC]

This $35 computer was invented in India, by an Indian company.

Now they can export it to the United States, allowing our school children to have access to supercheap computers too.

Our computer companies can then take this technology and improve upon it, potentially lower the cost of all computers.

The reason Globalization gets a bad name in the United States is that we do a terrible job of equipping middle aged workers to find new jobs and our unemployment compensation scheme is 20 years out of date. Moreover, our obsession with home ownership has stranded millions of people in job deserts.

We need to protect workers from the worst gyrations of the global economy and update our unemployment compensation system, but you don't help anyone when you cut off access to new ideas and innovation.

[americandream]

Advances notwithstanding, cyclically open capitalism is not sustainable. Presumably some of these technologies will have applications in a steady state economy.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tyler_JC', 'W')ho knows how many potential Michelangelos, Rembrandts, Hawkings, Einsteins, etc. died in obscurity on some rice paddy somewhere, never having the opportunity to achieve greatness?

We can't ignore the incredible advances that mankind is making.

We may soon be reaching an era in which many (if not most!) of the world's people have the opportunity to communicate with each other and create previously unimaginable wonders.

Yes, the bottom two or three billion still live in horrendous poverty but life is starting to get better for everyone else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUwS1uAdUcI&feature=channel

[2cher]

To Tyler

Who knows how many Hitler's, Pol Pot's, Khomeini's, Leopolds, Ţepeş's that we have also avoided thanks to them being stuck in rice paddies unable to subject the world to their insanity.