{"id":1965,"date":"2007-09-24T08:25:25","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T15:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=1965"},"modified":"2007-09-24T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T15:26:23","slug":"prometheus-abundant-giving-the-gift-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1965\/prometheus-abundant-giving-the-gift-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Prometheus abundant: Giving the gift of mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you want to fight a war on poverty? A war on terror? A war on the senseless waste of the sole source of capital, the human mind? Here’s your chance. For two weeks in November, you’ll be able to buy two XO laptops, the One-Laptop-Per-Child computer, with one coming to you and the other going to a hungry young mind overseas.<\/p>\n

From the Boston Globe<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n

With orders for its rugged XO laptop falling short of its initial goal, the One Laptop Per Child project announced today that it would let consumers in the United States and Canada buy the cute computer for a limited time.<\/p>\n

In an interview last week, Nicholas Negroponte, the former MIT Media Lab director and founder of the so-called $100 laptop initiative, conceded that he had not locked in the 3 million orders that he once said were necessary to trigger mass production.<\/p>\n

The new “Give 1, Get 1” initiative could be the antidote, he said, by helping to spread the project.<\/p>\n

For a limited two-week span in November, people will be able to buy two laptops for $399, one for the buyer and one for a child in a developing country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My take: Donate both, perhaps with one going to a child in your own home town. Even better:<\/p>\n

Starting today, people who simply want to donate a laptop to a child in a developing country for $200 can do so online at XOgiving.org<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think there must be three billion<\/i> candidates for this machine, so I can’t imagine how most of them will get one before they are no longer children. But the bounty of the harvest is planted one seed at a time.<\/p>\n

Prometheus literally means “foresight.” Because of the gift of mind, the uniquely Hellenic gift, I live in a world of vast abundance. I used to joke that Americans should “count their microprocessors instead of sheep,” but, by now, I can’t get an accurate count of the microprocessors sitting on my desk<\/i>. When I think about some young Prometheus growing up chained to the stultification of ignorance, indolence and superstition, I could not be more grateful for this chance to Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you want to fight a war on poverty? A war on terror? A war on the senseless waste of the sole source of capital, the human mind? Here’s your chance. 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