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.
>
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