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To: stak who wrote (68316)	11/11/1998 12:22:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: Government give away PC's for hitech leg up Many colleges require their students to have a specified PC at admission. Many MBA schools bundle a laptop in their tuition and fees. I have heard no complaints, since students can finance from student loans. I would like to see PC's and books ISP service etc. made deductible and eligible for student loans (even for younger students). I would hate to see them free. I think people should do some work for them so they will value them. But I believe absolutely that we have to get PC's in the hands of all students first in the US and then in the world by the end of the next decade. To do this they should be cheap and cable modem connected (or equivalent) but powerful enough to deliver HDTV with programs on demand. It will cost trillions, but beats the space program. I was talking to a Japanese student today and we figured that securities houses like MER and Morgan Stanley could do well by giving computers to Japanese housewives and teaching them how to do on-line trading. The housewives would earn credits to pay for the computers on every trade. It would give those poor ladies (who average $90,000 a piece in liquid savings) somethihg to do with their time, brains, and money.