This article is a foreword from the editor in the Technology Review magazine which is published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on August 2005. From the writer point of view, the technology, called Hundred Dollar Laptop (HDL), which is developed by Nicholas Negroponte, the founder and chairman of MIT’s Media Lab, is very promising to help improving education in the poor world. Also, from the article, the writer tries to convince the readers that HDL is a break through, and could be built as well.
The article discuss that HDL has many features and could be integrated into the poor world, such as, it would not be loaded by Microsoft Windows instead of Linux. Another feature is that HDL, due to poor electricity in the poor world, may be powered by a “parasitic power”. Also, mesh network is proposed as a solution for a HDL to communicate with others. Furthermore, HDL would be provided with Skype as free communication software. On the other side, internet access is not cheap in the poor world, due to fragile infrastructure and expensive to maintain. Furthermore, this article express that HDL would not be sold commercially, yet the government would purchase it. Regarding to its un-commercial, China and Brazil has expressed their interest in buying the machines. Finally, the article states that there is a need to more expansive horizon of education behind the needs of clean water, food and health care. Thus, Negroponte’s HDL could be as a solution.
However, while HDL is a wonderful solution for poor education, it is still too vague to produce such of technology. For instance, it said that at the early of 2006, “He would build 100 million to 200 million HDLs every year...”, how they do it and whether it is a...
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.....” It is becoming clear that the writer wants to convince the readers, the HDL idea is supported by many people at the conference, who is attended by “Technology princess”, and also it could be built.
The persuasive and emotive languages, which are used by the writer, seem a very good approach to convince the readers about the HDL idea. Apparently, this is a very good way to express the writer’s opinion. For instance, in the last paragraph, the writer stated “Attempt to bridge the digital divide failed because there was no bridge. Nicholas Negroponte’s Hundred Dollar Laptop could be that bridge”. It sound that HDL is the only way to be the solution. Also, this is a very good sentence to conclude, while there is also an effort to persuasively convince the readers to accept the writer’s idea.
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Poor countries do not always have resources to fit the bill of education services for technology. “For children in poor countries, future connectivity promises new access to educational tools…” (Schmidt 227). “Physical classrooms will remain dilapidated; teachers will continue to take paychecks and not show up for class; and books and supplies will still be scarce” (Schmidt 227). A survey was done in 2012 about Ethiopia give out tablets fully loaded with educational information to poor country; it irresistibly gave poor students a wealth of knowledge where students could write and speak English (Schmidt 227-228). Inversely, the education of poor countries has hit all time low. The countries that do not have the finance to buy or create technology for classes is detrimental to the country growth. Technology must be available for everyone. The world is hindered from becoming a better place without technology being present in education. “Just imagine the implications of these burgeoning mobile or tablet-based learning platforms for a country like Afghanistan,
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