{"id":687,"date":"2004-12-22T14:21:08","date_gmt":"2004-12-22T18:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=687"},"modified":"2004-12-22T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2004-12-22T18:21:08","slug":"50x15-project-from-amd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"50&#215;15 project from AMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Patey has drawn my attention to the <a title=\"50x15 Initiative\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amd.com\/us-en\/Weblets\/0,,7832_12095,00.html\">50&#215;15 Initiative<\/a> by AMD to create a PIC (Personal Internet Communicator) that is low-cost and easy to use so that by 2015 we could see 50% of the world&#8217;s population connected to the Internet. For a story on this see, <a title=\"AMD's PC to increase online world \/ Low-end Internet model would assist emerging countries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2004\/10\/20\/BUGK29CIVB1.DTL&amp;type=business\">AMD&#8217;s PC to increase online world \/ Low-end Internet model would assist emerging countries<\/a>.<br \/>\nI, like Matt, have problems with the technology choices (Windows CE in a closed box with various preinstalled apps for media viewing.) This is a recipe for expanding the base of consumers not for empowering people to participate as creators on the net. The idea, if I understand AMD&#8217;s slides, is to market this through the telecommunication companies &#8211; reminds me of <a title=\"Minitel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minitel\">Minitel<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhile Linux may not be the cure for all ills, why not imagine a project like this based on a cheap Linux laptop like the <a title=\"Wal-Mart sells $500 linux laptop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/notes\/000684.html\">Wal-Mart $500 linux laptop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Patey has drawn my attention to the 50&#215;15 Initiative by AMD to create a PIC (Personal Internet Communicator) that is low-cost and easy to use so that by 2015 we could see 50% of the world&#8217;s population connected to the Internet. For a story on this see, AMD&#8217;s PC to increase online world \/ &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50&#215;15 project from AMD<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-culture-and-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}