“1. Children are our most precious natural resource. 2. The solution to poverty, peace and environment is education. 3. Teaching is one but not the only way to achieve learning.”
“Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the “$100 laptop.”
“Why you should listen to him:
A pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, Negroponte is perhaps best known for founding and directing MIT’s Media Lab, which helped drive the multimedia revolution and now houses more than 500 researchers and staff. An original investor in WIRED (and the magazine’s “patron saint”), for five years he penned a column exploring the frontiers of technology — ideas that he expanded into his 1995 best-selling book Being Digital. An angel investor extraordinaire, he’s funded more than 40 startups, and served on the boards of companies such as Motorola and Ambient Devices.
But his latest effort, the One Laptop Per Child project, may prove his most ambitious. The organization is manufacturing the XO (the “$100 laptop”), a wireless Internet-enabled, pedal-powered computer costing roughly $100. Negroponte hopes to put the first devices in the hands of the children in the developing world by the end of 2007, expanding to millions more by 2010.”
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