$100 Laptop
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Posted By Matt Certo on 10/10 at 04:30 PM |
I first heard of Nicholas Negroponte back in the mid-1990s when I read his book called Being Digital. It was this book that clarified, for me, the difference between bits and atoms. One funny anecdote in the book dealt with the value of his laptop and his dispute with a customs official. The customs official indicated that the value of the laptop was probably about $4,000. His argument, tongue-in-cheek, was that it was really worth over $1Million. She was referring to the atoms (physical makeup of the laptop) and he was referring to the bits (data and intellectual property).
Mr. Negroponte is now, ironically, touting the $100 laptop. In his role as founding Chairman of the MIT Media Lab, a place where a ton of innovation occurs, Negroponte is trying to bring technology to children so that every learner has his/her own laptop.
The Web site does caution that this reality is a long way off, but his successful execution of the project would not surprise me.
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