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One Laptop Per Child

This has to be one of the nobler technology driven efforts of recent times:

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a new, non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a $100 laptop—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. This initiative was first announced by Nicholas Negroponte at the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland in January 2005.
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And on the other hand Mr. Moneybags Microsoft had this to say about the project...

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"Geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you're not sitting there cranking the thing while you're trying to type"
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Read more of the article here

Nice one Billy! Millions of less privileged will undoubtedly agree with u! ;)

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Posted in Tech News on 2006-03-17 by Ninja. Original Source: Various