The 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.
[ from BBC ]
A wonderful idea. I hope it will actually end up a success. $100 could be too much in a lot of countries. I'm pretty sure that this amount of money is far too much for an average Bulgarian family, for example - the average monthly salary is somewhere around that mark.
What about third world countries? They score even worse. Governement sponsored programs? But the third world governments have their hands tied by the IMF and the World Bank, so guess how much funding they will have for social programmes like that.
