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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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.Nicholas Negroponte
Studies have shown that kids take up computers much more easily in the comfort of warm, well-lit rich country living rooms, but also in the slums and remote areas all around the developing world.
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If you get those kind of results, I'm going to build the machines. There's enough passion and enough kids that are able to do things they were not able to do before that justifies it.
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I have come to a conclusion that every new release of software is distinctly worse than the other. Why It's because the fat lady can't sing. There's a natural tendency to add stuff. Suddenly it becomes like a very fat person -- uses most of their energy to move the fat. We've gotten to the point where we have to completely rethink.
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