Dick Sblog

It’s nice to know that you’re not alone in your thinking.

I’ve written here before about the prospect of applications being delivered down the wire, rather than served locally. This model offers a number of advantages – you pay for the software as and when you use it, not regardless of how often you use it, you can use cheaper, more robust machines at the user end (the RM Asus or the OLPC device for example) which offers the prospect of being able to provide every child with their own machine, management of the system is easier (for the folk in the school) and they wouldn’t have to worry about software licensing. True, they would need better bandwidth but one day the UK will wake up to the realisation that investing in fibre is as important as investing in roads or airports (or even railways!)…

Anyway, when the FT wakes up to this revolution and points out to the wider world that it’s already taking place, then maybe the educational world and the suppliers of its applications should start paying attention…