One Laptop Per Child - a Preview of the Hundred Dollar Laptop

This deserves flagging up if only because of the potential impact it could have for things that Christians consider important like development, education and human welfare. EThan Zuckermann, the author of the article writes;

One Laptop Per Child is an amazingly ambitious and radical project. If it succeeds, it will radically change how the world learns, communicates and interacts over the next couple of decades. And if it fails, it will likely scare off anyone from trying anything this radical in technology and education for many years to come. For that reason alone, I'd like to make sure it doesn't fail,

Any how, look at the specs and the plans. It's a brave and exciting vision and one I prefer to putting a [wo]man on mars in terms of the long term good that technology could do ...
WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: One Laptop Per Child - a Preview of the Hundred Dollar Laptop
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