Posts Tagged ‘laptops’

January 31, 2009

Hold down the ESC key, Mr. Negroponte. Then it will all go away…

Here’s an interesting elegy to the One Laptop Per Child project, the much-lauded initiative of Nicholas Negroponte to bring computers to the world’s poor. Turns out it went bust: Last week OLPC laid off half of its staff. Sales of its XO Laptop to developing nations are far, far below initial projections in the millions; [...]