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Internet.org: delivering poor Internet to poor people
mostlysignssomeportents: Mark Zuckerberg’s Internet.org project bribes corrupt, non-neutral carriers in poor countries to exempt Facebook and other services of its choosing from their data-caps, giving the world’s poorest an Internet that’s been radically pruned to a sliver of what the rest of the world gets for free. Internet.org characterizes its goals as charitable and development-oriented.…
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It’s not surprising, then, that when Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor Persivale, the billionaire son of an elite Peruvian banking family, decided to expand his empire of restaurants and movie theaters by buying up a chain of for-profit English-language elementary schools, his first step was to contact IDEO and commission them to design everything: the buildings, the budget,…
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L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum, seeks refund from Apple
mostlysignssomeportents: Nearly a year ago, L.A. Unified sent Apple a letter demanding that it address problems with the Pearson curriculum. “Only two schools of 69 in the Instructional Technology Initiative … use Pearson regularly,” according to an internal March report from project director Bernadette Lucas. “Any given class typically experiences one problem or more daily.…
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Broadening the geopolitics still further is Gangjian Cui’s installation Rise of the Plasticsmith. He anticipates a time 50 years hence when the scarcity of oil will mean that cities such as his native Daqing, a community in north-east China built entirely on the industrial production of plastic, will be facing terminal decline. The artist posits…
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personalfactory: 3DPrinterOS in the cloud Update “Multi-Printer Support from a Single Device Aaron Roy: Understanding how to do multi-printer support from a single device (i.e. 1 Raspberry Pi 2 and two different 3D Printers connected) and making the software intuitive enough to work with printer serial numbers thus making it plug and play instead of…