CNN.com – Modified game consoles to narrow digital divide I think John Gage may have a screw loose with his assertion that we should supply the developing world with modified Sony Playstations just because they are cheap and can run Linux. It seems he has found support for this plan:
“Gage said he has discussed the plan with the chairman of Sony and the president of the World Bank and decided that at least 100,000 modified consoles should be installed in schools and people’s homes in poor country’s such as Uganda and Mali. “It should be a number above 100,000, but under a million,” he said.”
Well, I suppose that if he could get old stock of un-saleable Playstation 1s for free they might do some good but I believe that a multi-function device like a PC would still be more use.
