Re: A School Without Books

naebad wrote: 
You need a book reading device - but who says it will be expensive? A
Laptop certainly is but we are now hearing about the $100 laptop for
Africa I think.

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=vn20051002103755443C677545

Just a matter of time before we have the $50 book reader or maybe less.
The more are produced the price comes down. We all have CD players now
- probably several per houshold and ditto for DVD players. How much
does a CD player for your PC cost now versus 10 years ago? They
practically give them away now.

Just because technology is practically given away doesn't mean people will buy into it.


Then there is the cost to the environment - less trees being cut down.

These electronic devices are *far* more damaging to the environment than books. Paper can be produced from sustainable resources, and it can be recycled. Computer components are already soiling the planet, and recycling, when it takes place, which is hardly ever, usually involves shipping the things halfway round the Earth to somewhere where labour is cheap and dispensable, such as China. That's *not* environmentally (or socially) desirable, nor is it sustainable.

The fact that you are already doing something similar (sitting reading
a screen) means it most certainly will happen.


Not so. People happily sat in steam cars until they went defunct.

I could see in 1999 that CDs were on their way out though it has taken
longer than I thought for the companies to catch on to online sales. I
imagined a music shop where you would make up your own CDs but it has
not worked out that way. At the time download speeds were so slow I was
off on the wrong track.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4304466.stm

CD sales seem to be quite healthy here in Scotland. In fact new shops are opening all the time selling the things, and even their vinyl predecessors. Not everyone prefers the inferior quality of the crappy downloaded equivalent.



Soon TV will be on the net and you will download your program when you
want it - its all changing and for the good of the consumer. Buying
books direct is cheaper (well in most countries it is) as it cuts out
the middle men. Buying just the s'oftware' will be even cheaper still.
Trust me - I'm a guru in these things!

With your record (sic) on s.c.s., I wouldn't trust your opinion on anything.....

--
Ian O.
http://www.iomorrison.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
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