I'm Not Good At Selling

Computing Is Not About Computers Any More. It Is About Living. Whatever Big Problem You Can Imagine, From World Peace To The Environment To Hunger To Poverty, The Solution Always Includes Education, ... We Need To Depend More On Peer-to-peer And Self-driven Learning. The Laptop Is One Important Means Of Doing That.

But Just As Elevators Have Changed The Shape Of Buildings And Cars Have Changed The Shape Of Cities, Bits Will Change The Shape Of Organizations, Be They Companies, Nations, Or Social Structures.

I've Spent My Whole Life Worrying About The Human-computer Interface, So I Don't Want To Suggest That What We Have Today Is Even Close To Acceptable.

Think Of It: The Lowest Common Denominator In Being Digital Is Not Your Operating System, Modem, Or Model Of Computer. It's A Tiny Piece Of Plastic, Designed Decades Ago By Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, And Company, Who Thought They Were Making An Inconspicuous Plug For A Few Telephone Handsets. Not In Their Wildest Dreams Was Registered Jack 11 - A Modular Connector More Commonly Known As The Rj-11 - Meant To Be Plugged And Unplugged So Many Times, By So Many People, For So Many Reasons, All Over The World.

Machines Need To Talk Easily To One Another In Order To Better Serve People.