Archive for the 'OLPC' Category

Jim Getty’s thoughts on the $100 laptop

[link] Monday, November 28th, 2005

Informative and interesting essay. Includes thoughts for anyone thinking of developing software to run on the machine.

Professor Negroponte’s Laptop

[link] Sunday, November 20th, 2005

Andy Carvin has done an interesting — and revealing — interview with the CTO of the One Laptop Per Child project. She’s refreshingly open and honest about the difficulties and possibilities of the project. Confirms my hunch that it will have as much impact on the West as it has on the developing world because it will effectively commoditise computing. And it runs Linux!