I am always asked in my travels through the developing world 'If this is such a good idea, why isn't America doing it' ... Well, now they are.
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People aren't thinking about small, fast, thin systems. Suddenly it's like a very fat person (who) uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too.Nicholas Negroponte
It is going to happen, and if it comes out at 138 so what If it comes out six months late so what I tell people I used to be a light bulb and now I'm a laser.
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Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.
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Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.
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It might not be long before we have jackets that can recharge cell phones and you can be sure that is a jacket I'm going to wear more often. In an aging society, it would be remarkable and wonderful if people could buy pants that walk for them. Is the technology there to make walking pants The answer is yes. There could be shoes that teach you how to dance or perhaps they do the dancing for you, you wear them and suddenly you are a good dancer.
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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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