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<div>So I just viewed this segment, mostly an interview of Negroponte with Leslie Stahl:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/09/60minutes/main13546.shtml">http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/09/60minutes/main13546.shtml</a> , but </div>
<div>with lots of footage from Cambodia, plus significant footage of (a) Negroponte </div>
<div>telling lecture hall that Intel was bad (b) Intel defending itself in the person of</div>
<div>its CEO.</div>
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<div>For an intro to a big topic, I thought this was good overview, and 60 Minutes </div>
<div>always needs a twisted plot i.e. a bad guy, so I don't begrudge dwelling on the</div>
<div>private industry threat. My Project Renaissance model builds in the idea of </div>
<div>test pilot nonprofit idealists like Negroponte paving the way for commercial </div>
<div>imitators -- surely this pattern is repeated over and over (used to be the </div>
<div>military was the biggest guinea pig, for health care innovations especially).</div>
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<div>Negroponte himself comes across as a class act, handsome, well spoken,</div>
<div>an idealist we can love. So the XO uses AMD chips, so what?</div>
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<div>I'm glad the idea of massive computer power spreading to the world's </div>
<div>underprivileged is being presented as pretty much a fait accompli. Even </div>
<div>if Intel is getting in the way, it's doing so by embracing the vision. I hope </div>
<div>the XO really flies big time though. Wouldn't bother me to see it fattening</div>
<div>a bottom line or two -- the investors could be XO-using entrepreneurs in </div>
<div>the developing world, doing the hard work of keeping the pipeline moving.</div>
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<div>Kirby</div>
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