>This set me to thinking about my favorite pie-eyed dream, setting as a
>philanthropic goal for Silicon Valley's billionaires the creation of a truly
>CHEAP electronic infrastructure for the Third World. As I've described here
>before, I envision the design of a super-simple sat-phone-PC-net terminal
>with solar and wind-up power. Make hundreds of millions of them and
>distribute them free throughout the Third World. Back it up with a
>distributed volunteer network to run distance-learning programs (basic
>literacy, public hygiene, agriculture, first aid) through the sat-net system.
> The cell comm system would be smart enough to plug into land-based wireless
>as/when available. My private name for this project: "Brain Seeds"
Grand Idea, thank you for sharing. I for one would be glad to teach a distance learning class. I have already been developing a low cost distance learning method for work so that our field people can participate in training.
John Calvin
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