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From School Technology Leadership Blog: “A laptop for every child on Earth.”

A ’sound byte’ from Wired News interview with Nicholas Negroponte (chair of the One Laptop Per Child initiative):

WN: So you’re shipping this with development tools installed?

Negroponte: Yes. Absolutely.

WN: We’re talking about C compilers and Make and the whole programming environment?

Negroponte: Yup.

WN: Is the goal literally to make computers available to every child that wants one in the world?

Negroponte: It’s every child in the world whether they want one or not. They may not know they want one.

WN: You’re going to be unleashing a whole new generation of open-source programmers, who otherwise would never, possibly, have gotten their hands on a computer.

Negroponte: I hope so. I hope we unleash half a billion of them.

Ummm…. Wow. Talk about Power to the People! Brace yourself folks, the world seems to be spinning awfully fast right now.

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