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I became concerned after hearing the news of the Intel and OLPC fall out. I believe that OLPC is a key asset in a “proliferation of information technology” strategy. I wanted to make sure everyone knew I am not against information sharing, but in the negative self serving ways it can be abused.

The IT proliferation movement can strengthen overall strategic security, and diplomatic relations for the US and other global stakeholders and citizens. The end goal should specifically focus on cultivating good non-official channels of media communications or “Citizen Journalism”. The ‘OLPC’ would offer the young generations, eager to share, a chance to complete that loop for two way communications.

Knowledge is the key to freedom and works better when shared in both directions. Instability and unpredictability due to insufficient information makes people afraid of the unknown. The default behavior results in closed/protective positioning or indifference. The IT proliferation movement will keep us from being doomed to enslavement by our own ignorance.

Reference OLPC and Intel story here:

OLPC fires back at Intet, Children learn nothing. - CNET News.com

News.com reporter Elinor Mills asks an ad company to tailor ads to her Web surfing habits.

How far is too far in advertisement targeting? The power of aggregating all the activities of a user from click-streams to page views is a huge source for targeted and sometimes individual identifiable information. The targeting mentioned in this ad only gets better with the more information in collects. Intrusive advertisements and marketing information is already becoming more of a problem and complaint for users. Now, imagine for a second the volume of information that was collected in the person’s short time surfing and then think about size that same sampling will be for our younger generations.

Kinda scary. See the article here

Source CNET Article: Target me with your ads,please