Reaching the
digital have-nots!
PCtvt - PC, TV, Video, Telephone!
VISION
"Entertainment, communication and education must be made affordable and accessible to the 4
billion people living below the poverty line"
- Raj Reddy, Edward Fredkin, Lynn Carter, Daniel Miller
PCtvt - PC, TV, Video,
Telephone!
"Raj Reddy, a pioneering researcher in artificial intelligence and a professor at Carnegie
Mellon University, plans to unveil at the end of this year his new project, called the PCtvt,
a $250 wirelessly networked personal computer intended for the four billion people around the
world who live on less than $2,000 a year, reports the New York Times (via CNET).
"He says his device can find a market in developing countries, particularly those with large
populations of people who cannot read, because it can be controlled by a simple TV remote
control and can function as a television, telephone and videophone."
"Because his low-cost computer doubles as a TV and DVD player, Reddy believes that he will
be able to use it as a vehicle to take computing and communications to populations that until
now have been excluded from the digital world."
The project is being backed by Microsoft and Korean manufacturer TriGem among others. One of
the interesting things the NYT points out is the question of bringing digital technology to
often illiterate rural populations.
Source: Guardian Unlimited | Online blog, August 16, 2004
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