Comments on: iPhone or XO Laptop, Which Is Cooler? http://thefinancebuff.com/iphone-or-xo-laptop-which-is-cooler.html like a friend telling you about money ... Tue, 22 May 2012 00:03:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Anonymous http://thefinancebuff.com/iphone-or-xo-laptop-which-is-cooler.html#comment-291 Anonymous Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:07:00 +0000 http://blog.thefinancebuff.com/?p=174#comment-291 I have to agree with Ted. Having worked in education in developing countries, it's interesting to see what westerners think people in these countries actually need and quite sad to see the direction that many of them are heading as they trade off their beautiful culture (for an American modeled one), destroy their wonderful natural environments (to build shopping centers and other western staple icons) and their indigenous or local ways of doing things (often far superior and more suited to their context)... to be just like us.<br/><br/>Westerners are happy to help this process though either through ignorance or arrogance in thinking everyone should do things the way they do or because one day they'll be loading Microsoft software onto those computers, eating McDonalds or shopping at Gap. I have to agree with Ted. Having worked in education in developing countries, it’s interesting to see what westerners think people in these countries actually need and quite sad to see the direction that many of them are heading as they trade off their beautiful culture (for an American modeled one), destroy their wonderful natural environments (to build shopping centers and other western staple icons) and their indigenous or local ways of doing things (often far superior and more suited to their context)… to be just like us.

Westerners are happy to help this process though either through ignorance or arrogance in thinking everyone should do things the way they do or because one day they’ll be loading Microsoft software onto those computers, eating McDonalds or shopping at Gap.

]]> By: TFB http://thefinancebuff.com/iphone-or-xo-laptop-which-is-cooler.html#comment-269 TFB Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:57:00 +0000 http://blog.thefinancebuff.com/?p=174#comment-269 Children lack of access to public water, stable food supplies, or reliable power still need education too. The laptop is just a tool. They talked about loading textbooks onto the laptops. A large amount of text can be stored electronically. It cuts down the cost of printing and distributing textbooks quite a bit. Children lack of access to public water, stable food supplies, or reliable power still need education too. The laptop is just a tool. They talked about loading textbooks onto the laptops. A large amount of text can be stored electronically. It cuts down the cost of printing and distributing textbooks quite a bit.

]]> By: Ted http://thefinancebuff.com/iphone-or-xo-laptop-which-is-cooler.html#comment-268 Ted Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:40:00 +0000 http://blog.thefinancebuff.com/?p=174#comment-268 Interesting concept and product.<br/><br/>I don't understand why children in countries without clean public water, stable food supplies, reliable power, and basic medical care need laptop computers. <br/><br/>I have lived in the USA my whole life and consider a laptop a luxury item for most people.<br/><br/>I seriously doubt playing Halo3 or learning what "thanks for add" means is going to make an improvement in their life. Interesting concept and product.

I don’t understand why children in countries without clean public water, stable food supplies, reliable power, and basic medical care need laptop computers.

I have lived in the USA my whole life and consider a laptop a luxury item for most people.

I seriously doubt playing Halo3 or learning what “thanks for add” means is going to make an improvement in their life.

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