Curing Poverty with Computing
The person who coined that title should be nominated for the award of the "Most absurd (Absurdest?) title of a news story."
Brazilian University Researchers Build Cheap Computers for the Masses Ben Goertzel http://www.goertzel.org/benzine/BrazilianComputers.htm
here is an excerpt
"The idea here was to create a computer that members of the Brazilian underclass could genuinely afford. The Net PC will cost around $400 reiais
The "Brazilian underclass" must be "genuinely" scratching their heads over this one. Some of the poorest people in the western hemisphere would be far more worried about getting a roof over their heads, about getting their street-children off the streets, about getting a decent job in an economy wrecked by neo-liberalism... not about acquiring a computer running a, hold your breath,
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