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I hope it doesn’t sound silly, but I’d really like to get my hands on an OLPC laptop. Why? I don’t know. The OLPC is a Big Idea made real, and I’d really like to be able to experiment (play) with the machine the OLPC group has created. I hope that “mere humans” and not just big governments will someday have the ability to purchase one…
At some level, I think I’d want it as a “field laptop.” This might be for working with mobile robotics platforms, deployed wireless sensors, or any of a host of other things that I do where a laptop is a useful/necessary thing. The OLPC could make a great platform for mobile updates to software, collection of data off motes, and other similar activities. On another level, it could be a great teaching resource… imagine an OS course where students all had to buy an OLPC machine (for around $100, about what a textbook costs), and they worked on implementing drivers, memory managers, filesystems… all for real hardware.
All that, and they’re so cute!
Right. I think I need to head home and relax a bit today. I’ve been spending a lot of time programming and writing these last few weeks, and should probably just enjoy some downtime.