The $100 laptop for the poor that Negroponte's MIT labs dreamed up for the poor is nothing but a gadget according to Intel Corp. Chairman Craig Barrett. I will agree with this assesment. Apart from that it also betrayed possible lack of knowledge about the poor countries MIT is aiming to help. Instead of making and selling hand cranking toy why not lend hands with legions of indigenous computer manufacturers in these poor countries to produce affordable regular computers?
"It turns out what people are looking for is something that has the full functionality of a PC," he said. "Reprogrammable to run all the applications of a grown-up PC ... not dependent on servers in the sky to deliver content and capability to them, not dependent for hand cranks for power."
Exactly.
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