Nicholas Negroponte and One Laptop Per Child
A few years back, MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte came up with an idea to produce $100 laptops and give them to the kids in the Third World. In order to do so, he took a leave of absence from MIT, created a non-profit organization and set about finding the engineering talent and money to build the laptop. He achieved an engineering success, but found out the hard way that the business world is not as friendly as the world of academia. Today the laptop exists, and can be purchased in the United States until December 31st, 2007. To read more of the story, and to find the link where you can buy the laptop, go to www.wealthencyclopedia.com/one_laptop_per_child.html
Books by Nicholas Negroponte
Being Digital
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The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment
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Soft Architecture Machines
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Negroponte - who is he?
One laptop per child on YouTube
OLPC one laptop per child XO prototype at siggraph 2007
matthew hockenberry of http://creativesynthesis.net demonstrates the one laptop per child's fourth production prototype of the 'hundred-dollar laptop' at siggraph 2007 - video by leonardo bonanni of hyperexperience.com FAQ: -Yes, this is the hundred dollar laptop -No, you can't buy one - they are only sold to governments in minimum orders of one million -It actually costs about $140 -It is made by a private non-profit company based in Cambridge MA USA -There is no hand-crank, but a variety of generators are being prototyped including a foot-pedal and a pull-string
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60 Minutes - One Laptop Per Child (May 20, 2007)
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Intellectual capital and video on the desktop.(TECHNOLOGY)(One Laptop Per Child project)(Technology, Entertainment and Design conference and website)(Column): An article from: Phi Delta Kappan
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