To US consumers, that is. The “Give 1 Get 1” program ended on December 31, 2007. So now that it’s over, and at least hundreds of thousands of Americans have tried it out, what do people think? My OLPC on an extremely messy desk The Economist says it’s “One clunky laptop per child.” At least…Continue Reading…
I finally received my OLPC XO-1 today… here’s part 5 of my video unboxing series. More below the fold…
Give one. Get one. That’s the proposition of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, whose mission it is to provide laptops to children in developing countries. The idea is to empower these schoolchildren by allowing them access to the kind of technology that has made the U.S. and other technology-centric nations so prosperous. It’ll…Continue Reading…