There’s been a lot of press about the effort being led by Nicholas Negroponte and others to develop a $100 laptop. It appears to be a well-intentioned plan, but like so many tech-industry causes, it seems to be starting from the position of “we’ve got the answers” instead of asking good questions and listening to people’s needs. That, at any rate, is the thoughtful analysis offered here and here by personal-computing pioneer Lee Felsenstein, who has done his own work in the area of bringing computing to rural third-world communities
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