Comments on: wikipedia and the laptops

By: George Showman

George Showman — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:28:44 +0000

This is interesting… “searching” becomes a state of being, rather than just an action that begins and completes. E.g. a kid might say “I’m searching for articles on sharks” and this fact would be known about him as he moves through various OLPC networks. People can then offer him the articles he seeks (presumably through some automated system, but possibly manually… they might just contact him and explain something).

By: Tejas Dinkar

Tejas Dinkar — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 07:17:51 +0000

Would it be possible to set up some sharing network?

When one person queries for a wikipedia article, if first check his box if that is there.

If it isn’t, the request is forwarded to the next box, and so on and so forth, until the request is served?

By: blizzard

blizzard — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:57:23 +0000

Luis is on the right path, I think. The wonderful thing about the laptops is that we can make an assumption about what software is on the laptop and they can act cooperatively in order to make a better experience for any individual user.

By: Luis

Luis — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:03:16 +0000

p2p! p2p! :)

By: Ben Basson

Ben Basson — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 18:48:16 +0000

Presumably if the objective is to get masses of Wikipedia entries onto a small hard disk, you could forgo a lot of the markup and styles.

After doing this, and using some kind of gzip compression (or alternatively zip/rar/etc), at the very least I’d expect that tens of thousands of documents could be bundled.

Of course, you’re still right that it’s difficult to make choices, but presumably the fundamentals of education would be a great start, followed by anything relevant or useful to living in the target area.

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