The new $100 Laptop

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program is aiming to provide laptop for $100 each to children around the world. The purpose of this project is to get children using computers all over the world. Being able to read any book on the internet, being able to learn any language, getting local weather updates to help manage crops, finding a better market price for your wares or maybe just communicating with friends and families all over the world.

Take a look. Its a beautiful piece of hardware. What it ends up costing, who knows, but itll be worth it for someone somewhere.
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Anyone can be struck by lightning,
But not everyone can conduct electricity!

OLPC and Kiva - Small business technology revolution at the bulging end of the long tail

Kiva.org allows me to lend to small businesses throughout the world. The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program has created the ultra-efficient and clean computer for children around the world. Why not combine these program allowing private persons the ability the give loans for purpose of buying laptops? Edit the default install to be tailored for small business all using open source FREE software. Maybe even build potential evolutionary/revolution producing software and allow the fundamental programming languages and abilities spread around the world like math does today. I guess that last point is already being done via the OLPC program, but this would be a business related development (evolutionary) versus the kids learning with their minds in this world. Good lord. Revolution. The business program could be made to drop the price on the laptops going to the kids via a direct tax (gotta make sure the kids benefit to win this battle) and by increasing the demand leading to all those economies of scales equations.

Well...that's all folk.