$100 Laptop Computer Introduced at Davos

[DudeAsInCool]

NEW ECONOMY

Taking the Pulse of Technology at Davos

By JOHN MARKOFF

Published: January 31, 2005

Davos, Switzerland

NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE, the technology guru from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory, prowled the halls of the World Economic Forum holding the holy grail for crossing the digital divide: a mock-up of a $100 laptop computer.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/31/technology/31newcon.html

[KiwiCoromandel]

good article dude........

" At the time, Mr. Gates was a notable skeptic, arguing that it was more important to address basic life necessities - health and food, for example - before connecting the world's poorest citizens to the Internet ".....hmmmm..seems to me that billyboy may only have wanted the affluent to be able to access the internet ...... <_>