Re: Solar powered computers
You said:
Why can't they put out a hand-held calculator that will do everything my P133 will do, and sell it for $100? I'd also like it to be solar-powered, because I don't like to change the batteries.
You may have been kidding around here, but I think this is a really powerful concept.
The greatest area of computing industry growth may be in the 95% of the world that doesn't yet have computers. Kind of obvious, when stated like that.
What's the single most profound, productive, yet underutilized natural resource in the world?
People.
But 4 billion people don't have access to the other tools and resources needed to elevate them to a higher use of their human faculties.
Enter the solar powered computer.
The potential of this product is mind boggling. What if a company with the size and R&D might of Intel exerted their ballyhooed enterpreneurial agility (a claim of which I'm frankly skeptical) and massively reallocated their muscle toward developing smaller, cheaper, more integrated, power-efficient chips instead of bigger, hotter, speedier chips that no one really wants right now?
What if you could put a 486 with 32MB of flash RAM in a package the size of a PalmPilot that was solar powered? And it cost $400?
I tell you what, I would take a large long position in the company that could pull that off. Heck, I would join up.
The magic of software is, once a piece of code is written, transportation costs are nearly zero. If you, LARRY KUZNETS, write a beautiful piece of code, everybody in the world that can run that code can benefit.
Now, with a cheap solar powered computer, you've opened up this productivity option to 4 BILLION PEOPLE that didn't have it before. Not only can the contribute, but they also become consumers. The ultimate economic bootstrap!
God bless,
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