The “One Laptop Per Child” program is doing something truly remarkable. This is the project started by Nicholas Negroponte, who spearheaded the design and manufacture of a just-barely-over $100 laptop. His intent is to make it possible for every single child in most countries in the world to have a laptop computer for educational purposes.
For the next six days, it’s possible to donate a laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one yourself for a total of $400. Do it now. However you want to put it, it’s a very decent way to (a) donate to a remarkable effort (b) get a cool piece of technology. I plan to order one … and then to show it off to all my friends. You should too.
I think that it’s humiliating that the United States will not be the first country in the world to ensure that every schoolchild has access to their very own computer. What kind of pathetic, half-rate superpower are we? Brazil committed to it in 2005. It’s far too late for pilot programs or trial runs. The only option now is to haul ass to catch up, or else be left behind.
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