If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
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The plan is for the 100 laptop to do almost everything. What it will not do is store a massive amount of data.
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Every single problem you can think of, poverty, peace, the environment, is solved with education or including education,
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The idea is that it fulfils many roles. It is the whole theory that learning is seamless,
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