[BNM] $100 Laptop

[james]

bah! close enough for me :)

i know bush and his cronies give him a call when they can't get their 
printers to work

jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Phelan" <dave.phelan at gmail.com>
To: "Brighton New Media" <bnmlist at brightonnewmedia.org>
Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 4:29 PM
Subject: Re: [BNM] $100 Laptop


On 6/9/06, Tim Blackwell <tim at redisland.net> wrote:
>
> >Dave wrote:
> >  >Negroponte is a lot of things, but is he really a neocon? Any
> >references?
>
> John Negroponte is the neo-con.
> Nicholas Negroponte is the laptop man.

Aha!
James thought we meant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte
when we meant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Negroponte

Is there anyone else who's not been in the industry long enough to
know about Nicholas "Being Digital" "Bits versus Atoms" "I was doyen
of the MIT Media Lab, me" Negroponte?

Should we have a quick catch-up for the newbies? Kevin Kelly, Howard
Rheingold, the Usenet Flamewars, Green-card Lawyers, Wired, MUDs,
Mondo 2000, boingboing on paper, Transhumanists and Extropians, Smart
drugs, 'homepages', Modern Primatives and body modificaton, the dotcom
boom, ICQ, ebay, altavista, hotbot, the pets.com sock puppet, the
dotcom bust, google, blogging, myspace.

There you go. heads back into the MMORPG guys.

Dave Ph

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