More OLPC fantasies

And the hits just keep on coming. Check out this post on Engadget via DVICE about the 3rd generation OLPC, newly reincarnated into tablet PC form. What? 3rd generation? What happened to generations 1 and 2? You guessed it...absolutely nothing.

As I talked about in my previous posts, when you run a company or group, you must be capable of balance. You have to be able to balance hype and reality. You need to understand how to use marketing for the betterment of your business long-term, not simply make a splash on the Internet, cause a buzz, and not be able to transform that buzz into tangible business success. That is not going to happen when all you do is create pretty pictures on web pages, or fancy powerpoint decks with vaporware promises.

I'll give the guys at Fusion Garage some credit. At least they have working prototypes. It remains to be seen if they ever sell more than a few thousand [which would be a feat]. But the OLPC folks are simply engaging in fanciful imagineering.

Ever hear the expression "At some point in time you need to shoot the engineers and ship the product"?

Well, in this case is should be stated more like:

"At some point in time you need to shoot the designer and build something."

Shoot the designer.

Build something.