Nicholas Negroponte spoke this morning about the MIT Media Lab's $100 laptop initiative. "One does not think of community pencils--kids have their own. They are tools to think with, sufficiently inexpensive to be used for work and play, drawing, writing, and mathematics. A computer can be the same, but far more powerful." More info at BBC News and Technology Review.
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• Sep 18 2005 • 12:54PM
Yes it would change the world, Internet Access means e-commerce access ( ebay and everything else ) with a couple of clicks whole areas could join the global economy.
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Joel • Sep 17 2005 • 5:22PM
I remember reading about this in WIRED a couple months ago. This idea could really change the world... and I don't think that's hyperbole. Just think if kids in developing countries were able grow up with access to computers and the internet? Economies of scale could just make it work too.