$100 Laptop Not So Much Useful As Useless
The $100 laptop project created by Nicholas Negroponte, has recently come under fire for not being quite the breathtaking, important technology it’s supposed to be, as most of the countries the laptop is geared toward would rather have things like food, shelter, and not dying. Various critics of the project have suggested that the laptops, lacking an internet connection or anything really that worthwhile, are much less important than the need for a basic communications and education infrastructure in the developing countries first.
Bill Gates on the “One Laptop Per Child” project
Make no mistake, we respect Bill Gates, the man has built an empire that all of us would like to build. We may not respect some of his tactics and his organisation, but we respect the man. Unfortunately, he does have a tendency at times to rant about things that do not fit into his big scheme of things and the latest statements about the One Laptop Project show an extraordinary lack of understanding of the vision behind the project.
