Zuckerman on One Laptop Per Child
Ethan Zuckerman writes in depth about the One Laptop Per Child project championed by Nicholas Negroponte. His article is carefully researched and well worth your time to read.
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Most of the people who write me are interested in owning a laptop they can afford. And that, it turns out, is not the goal of the One Laptop Per Child project. Their goal is to produce a laptop designed for use by children - students in grades K-12. And that requires radically different design decisions that what one would make in simply creating a low-cost laptop.
This project has the potential to change the world for millions of kids. How cool is that?