Friday, September 30, 2005
Let them eat laptops!
Sub-$100 laptop design unveiledThe laptop will be tough and foldable in different ways, with a hand crank for when there is no power supply.
Professor Negroponte came up with the idea for a cheap computer for all after visiting a Cambodian village.
His non-profit One Laptop Per Child group plans to have up to 15 million machines in production within a year.
A prototype of the machine should be ready in November at the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia.
Children in Brazil, China, Egypt, Thailand, and South Africa will be among the first to get the under-$100 (£57) computer, said Professor Negroponte at the Emerging Technologies conference at MIT.
Not that this is a bad idea as, you know, like maybe as step 31 in improving the world. Call me old fashioned but I think first people should have food, shelter, clothing, medical care, jobs, etc.... But maybe there is no money in those problems.
