In relation to my previous post on TED talks with Richard Baraniuk and his Connexions, platform (a massive repository of open-source class materials) another TED talk by MIT professor Nichola Negroponte details his ambition to ’spend the rest of his life’ supplying computing hardware to the children of the third world. It seems to me that if this fusion of visionary software and hardware can become a reality it will pave the way for further technological, social and economic reforms in places that would truly benefit.
Nicholas Negroponte lays out the details of his nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project. Speaking just days after relinquishing his post as director of the MIT Media Lab, he announces that he’ll pursue this venture for the rest of his life. He takes us inside the strategy for building the “$100 laptop,” and explains why and how the project plans to launch “at scale,” with millions of units distributed in the first seven countries. “This is not a laptop project; it’s an education project,” he says.
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