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The New York Times: For $150, Third-World Laptop Stirs Big Debate

[ Thanks to Joao
Rodrigues Romao Filho
for this link. ]

“When computer industry executives heard about a plan to build a
$100 laptop for the developing world’s children, they generally
ridiculed the idea. How could you build such a computer, they
asked, when screens alone cost about $100?

“Mary Lou Jepsen, the chief technologist for the project, likes
to refer to the insight that transformed the machine from utopian
dream to working prototype as ‘a really wacky idea…'”


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