Sugar is a great little OS for little learners around the world. Its the way an OS and laptop should be introduced to children. Engineered for Children…what a concept.
Tags: OLPC, Sugar Labs, Amazon, XO, open source, globalization, trends
Category: TED
Looking forward to Larry Lessig‘s new book Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy.
Larry has documented how the music and movie industries are turning students into criminals because they use cheap software, the internet and their creativity. His presentation at TED hilights the core principals of his upcoming book.
The power and impact of the digital economy has placed copyright and the old guard clearly on the defensive. Those aging companies still want the market to be “published” (in analog format) are unwilling to change to the new information economy.
—Well okay what I’m really trying to say is they don’t want to give up their revenue streams.
Okay maybe they do understand how the game has changed, yet I’m not sure the impact of how young people are wired has fundamentally changed their business model.
Actually I’m hoping Remix may also hilight how the RIAA should be chasing down the millions of pirates in China rather than students in America. Larry is proving what everyone under 30 already has accepted as a fact of life…They have never been forced to purchase a majority of their entertainment in analog format. Should be a great read!
Microsoft’s Photosynth was a hit at TED last year and looked to be really promising regardless of running only on XP SP2 and Vista (shame on you Microsoft) but the same team along with the University of Washington has moved forward with new photo, video and VR technologies:
This should be a very interesting mashup of multiple media formats. Great work and a wonderful tool for education.
Tags: Photosynth, photo, virtual reality, panaoramic, globalization, trends
TED is amazing don’t you think?
The OLPC program is moving through a rough time right now with the announced departures of initial key members and the new Microsoft announcement to bring XP onto the XO Laptops.
Walter Bender, former President of OLPC has launched Sugar Labs to promote the use of Sugar on more devices. Sugar is open source and I’m running it on my Powerbook via VMware’s Fusion. Sugar Lab’s approach: children should not be forced to learning a legacy operating system designed for adult computer programmers.
Lets face facts. XP is not designed for the world’s children living in poverty. The design is simple and perfect for children:
