Why Brazil’s not buying Negroponte’s laptops – thanks to Valleywag
Seems Gilberto Gil’s quibbling about the project’s “spiritual dimensions.” Bless, I know what he means too, though Valleywag seems a tad confused — maybe that’s why they refer to Gilberto by his surname Moreira.
Update — guess I was a little hard on Vallewag, as today (4 Jan 2008) they’ve got the news that Intel has pulled out of the whole deal. Good for Gilberto too, must have been using his ‘spirtuality’ to good effect.
If anyone found a coffee coloured latop (Apple Mac) in cafe Nero’s in High Street Ken’ today please drop me an email in confidence, or just drop it at reception at the Kensington Centre, 66 Hamersmith Rd. It belongs to a smart guy over from Harvard Medical School and it could have something useful on it. Ta.
Here he is holding a laptop similar to the one in question, with the team from ‘AstroMed’ (using software from medical imaging to give 3-D images of the universe, no less):
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