Bridging the digital divide by making computers for kids as common as pencils

15 May 05
United Nations University

360_nicholas_negroponte_aA global education system in which a fully portable personal computer is as common as a pencil or textbook to school children even in the poorest nations is the vision of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor, who next week will detail in Tokyo for the first time an accelerating international drive to mass manufacture a $100 laptop.

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