Engelbart and Kay --was: Back to the Future with Hypercard

[j downs]

> You can buy a lot of library books for the price of a computer lab.

My rural, moderately low SES (approx. 30% Free and Reduced Lunch)  
elementary school has a full-loaded computer lab and *ten* technology- 
focused regular third and fourth grade classrooms (each equipped with  
16 desktop computers, an interactive SMARTboard, scanners, printers,  
high-quality Internet video-conferencing unit, etc).  Computers are  
replaced with brand new machines on a three or four year rotation.

Including the lab, that's 185 machines just begging to have software  
installed on them in *one* grades 2-5 school serving just under 400  
students.  A ratio of nearly 1 computer to every 2 children, not  
counting teacher workstations and the networked mini-labs of two to  
four slightly older machines in each of the non-technology classrooms.

Plenty of other schools have similar setups.  Considering the number  
of children in schools, the potential sales become mind-boggling  
pretty darn quickly.

Besides, who needs books when you have the Internet?  ;-P

J.