{"id":1220,"date":"2007-03-16T18:30:59","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T22:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2007-03-27T12:29:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T16:29:23","slug":"technology-review-2-olpc-and-sterlings-sxsw-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Technology Review 2: OLPC and Sterling’s SXSW Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went surfing through MIT’s Technology Review site and two pieces discussing SXSW caught my attention. The first is called “SXSW Day 5: Future of the Book: The $100 Laptop” (Link)<\/a> and I thought it made a nice bookend to something I wrote earlier (reLink<\/a>) which is related to some thoughts I had some time back (Link<\/a>). I’m very much looking forward to hearing the end-user reviews of the OLPC computer. I’m still not on the bandwagon, but I do hope they prove skeptics like me wrong.
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\nThe second piece is titled “SXSW Day 5: Bruce Sterling on Faux Culture for Electronic Hicks” (Link)<\/a> and what I really enjoyed about it is that Sterling is echoing my earlier comments regarding mashup culture (reLink<\/a> – and read the comments). I’ll confess to giving Sterling some grief; set off back when he was being, in my opinion, overly harsh in his comments related to Vik Olliver’s early fabber prototypes (reLink<\/a>). But having just finished his book, Shaping Things<\/em>, I’m struck by how similar we think; it’s a little unnerving. So under the circumstances, I guess I should finally back off and thank him for putting the issues about which I care front and center where they can be debated and, hopefully, resolved. After all, no one is going to pay serious attention to me, or read posts where I slam the lack of boundary-breaching creativity in the mashup culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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