MIT unveils $100 (U.S.) laptop

[jason]

This is something that I've been interested in and have been talking about for some time... thank god it is finally an option. Perhaps there are problems with it, but it is moving in the right direction. Thanks to Aaron Chan who was my student in ECE912 a couple of years ago for pointing this out to me

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[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

good points all around. I think that the idea is that these tools are cheap enough to buy one for every kid on the planet. So they can watch nike commercials. Instead of giving them access to safe drinking water and more educational opportunities for women. Cheap technology is a good thing, but I'm always skeptical.