Thu 29 Sep 2005
This amazed me. Don’t miss the pictures of this thing either!
What struck me the most about this was not the device, although it is very cool, but the developer’s passion and sense of identity.
As a part of what he says is his life’s most important work, MIT Media Labs director, Nicholas Negroponte. is on course to deliver a $100 laptop to the people who need it most: the world’s children.
My first thought was, “Where will the data come from? How will this thing connect?”
Between WiFi, WiMax, 3G, 4G, etc, there are so many people working on the connectivity problem — regimes are changing, there’s global competition, connectivity is happening — [that problem] doesn’t need me, MIT or the Media Lab” – Negroponte, the developer
Article: Move over Microsoft, Dell. The $100 PC cometh. From MIT. | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com
Images: MIT’s $100 laptop | News Images on ZDNet
