I am thrilled you took the time to think about and answer this appeal. Like everybody else here, you are smarter than me so I think about your comments a while. But I will say, I spoke with several representative of relevant big shots and made a few points. First, none ever heard of linux and its free open source sophisticated status. Also, none ever heard of Raspberry Pi, mostly made in England, costing about $50. So the political talk of online education is dead at conception unless somebody rakes out at least $billions for whatever the Chinese cartel cooks up. Or the big shots could learn a very small fraction of what this group knows. Sadly, as you imply, big shots are a dangerous breed. No school is just beyond my thinking. Iznogoud wrote: > Second on the "we cannot abandon children". What happens today will shape > a generation, or part of a generation. Opportunity and peril are both ahead. > Use caution; the politics can be deadly. > > I think that technology can be tailored to the needs of the generation that > is in schools right now, but for also other generations that need to be able to > be productive from a distance. The key innovations may not even be technical > or technological at all. I think that a book I recently finished, Peter Thiel's > "Zero To One," asks all the right questions --albeit from a capitalist, money > making perspective-- that can frame the path to building a future that is > more compatible to our new reality. I guess I see this as an ooportunity to > find opportunities. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >