Religions > Atheism > OT: I want to teach the world to surf, says the man who invented the $100 laptop
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OT: I want to teach the world to surf, says the man who invented the $100 laptop |
I want to teach the world to surf, says the man who invented the $100
laptop
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article316113.ece
By David Usborne in New York
Published: 30 September 2005
One man in Boston has a plan that he hopes will bridge the world's
gaping digital divide - and quickly. The visionary is Nicholas
Negroponte, director of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and his idea consists of a new kind of laptop computer that
will cost just $100 (=A357) to buy.
It will also be a little different in design from the sleek machines
some of us in the west have learned to love or covet. It will be
foldable in different ways, encased in bump-proof rubber and will
include a hand-crank to give it power in those corners of the globe
where electricity supply is patchy.
Nicholas Negroponte
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/89e15952a6532b1f
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