97% of adolescents alive today live in the developing world. What are we doing to serve them? If you want to change the world we need to figure out a way to give them a chance. Get the cost of computing and access to computing down. OLPC – thought to be impossible (Jobs, Gates, Dell). 1 Million children across the developing world have laptops as a result of OLPC. Who cares what CPU is inside of it, we just need a low cost, low-power machine with decent battery life.
Innovation: High-end, Hight-Tech Research at the top of the pyramid.
OLPC/Pixel Qi: Innovation at the bottom of the pyramid. If you can pull it off you can increase the base of the pyramid. Sort of like trickle down economics is high end innovation. Work at the bottom of the pyramid to help the bottom of the pyramid.
Low power is the real key. ½ the world lives without steady access to electricity. How to design something that can be human powered. 1-watt laptop (10x lower than next laptop up). Redesigning the screen. Why not just self-refresh the screen? Why is the CPU/Mobo/fan on in every computer in the room. Until you get a keyboard event or internet packet. Screen and audio are our interaction point. Human computer interaction.
OLPC is greenest laptop ever made (Someone tell Apple). Keys for designing efficiency are things you would do naturally for the developing world. Make it user serviceable. All screens should not be HDTV quality. Keys for portables – low power, sunlight readability, high res for reading, paper white. You don’t want to stare into a flashlight.
3Qi screen. 3 displays in 1. Full color LCD TV mode. Low –power, highlight color, sunlight readable transflective mode. Very low power, paper-white, sunlight readable, reflective e-paper mode. This is beyond the XO screen. Fully saturated color option. Reflectivity is key.
People want TV even if they don’t have power to sustain it.
The CPU wars are over; it’s the screen wars now. iPhone is basically a screen. That is where the future of hardware.
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