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给发展中国家的百元美金计算机
The Hundred Dollar Laptop-Computing for Developing Nations |
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讲者：
Nicholas P. Negroponte
麻省理工学院媒体实验室主席与共同创办人
Wiesner媒体科技教授
“一孩一笔电”（OLPC）主席
(Chairman and Co-Founder, MIT Media Laboratory
Wiesner Professor of Media Technology
Chairman, One Laptop Per Child, OLPC)
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关于本次演讲：
想像一个世界，所有在学校的儿童都可以拥有笔记型计算机，甚至是连那些居住在没有电力和电话的村庄中的孩童都不例外。这是Nicholas Negroponte的梦想，他的“一孩一笔电”（OLPC）的非营利组织则正在把这个梦想推动到真实世界中。借着像是News Corporation和Google这些大公司的帮助，Negroponte开始从巴西、泰国、埃及、中国和南非安排了数以百万计的笔记型计算机订单。即使是联合国也认可这个计划。Negroponte的原型机是一台从“肥胖”的桌上型计算机瘦身的笔记型计算机，同时移除了市场和营销部分的花费，得到的结果是7.5吋的荧幕、Linux作业系统、手摇曲柄的电力来源、橡胶的外壳、以及超级亮的荧幕以便“能够带到阳光下当书来读”。得到的结果就是一个可以协助八亿孩童探索、互动和创作的便宜工具。别太担心连线速度的问题，媒体实验是已经解决了这个问题：每台计算机会变成其他使用者网状网络上的节点，替偏远的地区创造了可使用的简单网络。至于电子邮件和网络浏览这些同步的工作，Negroponte说只需要2MB就可以解决1000个孩子的需求。 拼凑出这些便宜的教育装置的关键在于数量：越多国家可以加入这个行列，这些计算机就会变得越方便、越便宜。Negroponte 对于这些机器可能吸引的灰色市场非常小心，决心要让它们成为极为独特，由政府派发的教育工具，让偷取它们会像是偷“邮局卡车”一样的尴尬。Negroponte 的结论是：“改变这世界的教育将会是极庞大的工作，”将会花费数十年，但如果让每个孩子都能够有计算机，这将可以“埋下改变的种子”，协助“创造未来”。
Imagine a world where all school-age children own a laptop computer, even those living in villages lacking power and telephone service. Nicholas Negroponte has, and his One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) non-profit has propelled this vision into the real world. With backing from News Corporation and Google, among others, Negroponte has begun to line up millions of orders from Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, China and South Africa. Even the United Nations has bestowed its imprimatur on the concept. Negroponte's prototype computer is a "skinnied down" version of what he describes as the typical "obese" laptop. Remove sales and marketing costs, and set the machine up with a 7.5" screen, Linux software, a hand crank for power, rugged rubber case, and super bright display so "it can be taken into the sun and read like a book," and you've got a very inexpensive tool for helping 800 million children explore, interact and create. Don't fret about connectivity; the Media Lab's got that covered: each laptop becomes a "node in the mesh" of other local users, creating a novel network perfect for remote locations. For email and web browsing, just two MB can serve 1,000 kids, says Negroponte. The key to churning out these cheap educational devices is volume -- and the more countries that join the bandwagon, the sleeker and less expensive the computers are likely to be. Negroponte casts a wary eye on the potential grey market appeal of the machines, and is determined to make them so distinctive as a government-distributed, educational tool that taking one would "be like stealing a post office truck." Negroponte concludes, "Changing education on the planet is a monumental challenge," taking decades. But OLPC will "seed the change," and help "invent the future."
关于讲者：
Nicholas P. Negroponte从1966年就已经成为麻省理工学院的教师。他是建筑机械群的创办人。在1995年，他出版了“数位革命”，被翻译成超过40种语言。
Nicholas 同时也是《连线》杂志（Wired）的创办人（朱注：一本极好的科技杂志，强力推荐！）是Motorola董事会的成员，他也是超过四十个以上新创公司的天使投资人。
Nicholas P. Negroponte has been on the MIT faculty since 1966. He was the founder of the Architecture Machines Group. In 1995, he published the bestseller Being Digital, which was translated into more than 40 languages.
Negroponte was a founder of Wired Magazine, and serves on the board of directors for Motorola, Inc. He has been an 'angel investor' in more than 40 start-ups.
更多有关Nicholas Negroponte的资料
笔记型计算机计划网页
关于影片（影片时间索引）：影片长度为 55:23
《科技评论》(Technology Review)杂志的发行人和总编辑Jason Pontin介绍这整个活动。
00:58时，《科技评论》杂志的总编Bob Buderi介绍Nicholas Negroponte。
02:48时，Negroponte开始演讲。
37:59时，Q&A问答时间开始。
以上资料为本影片上传至 MITWORLD 网站上当时所获知的资讯。此影片上传日为： 2005-12-27.
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