Nicholas Negroponte: The vision behind One Laptop Per Child

http://www.ted.com Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Laboratory, describes how the One Laptop Per Child project will build and distribute the "$100 laptop."

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[bramcorleone]

well this is a very great project I must admit

[Anthonsgirl]

i want a green machine:( there adorable and im glad ppl are doin things to change poverty and increase education.

[keenefreelibrary]

Technically speaking, you can remix this video on an OLPC XO-1 (it might take a while.)

Legally speaking, you couldn't share it with anyone if you did. TED really should fix this, there's absolutely no reason why people shouldn't use TED for remixes. With all the talk of changing culture, it should be re-mixable also. That's kind of what Lawrence Lessig was talking about when he was on TED, was it not?

[Jefferdaughter]

Just wondering if anyone has calculated the environmental impact of producing - and disposing within a few years - this many laptops?

More insidious is the underlying assumption that the way to improve lives is to help the world all become more like us. You know, to live a more 'Western' or 'American' lifestyle.

[lordrazi111693]

its funny. every time i watch a TED vid i think "maybe we can make it. maybe there is hope" then i remember bush was elected twice and laugh at myself.

[Wormtail81]

Government distribution in third world countries of laptops. Fraud, anyone?

[BR177]

I think it is useful, but not in the form of a "goverment credit" as it is. I will rather consider a Fundation with donations and generic, cheap, asian computers.

[TetuaMaana]

@BR177

I think you are well-meaning, but there needs to be a seismic shift in your thinking on this matter.

[BR177]

how about giving them something to eat?

[TetuaMaana]

Or it would make the more knowledgeable raise their game higher?

[TetuaMaana]

ALL students in the US or just the smart ones?

[yadeyrinii]

Putting knowledge in the hands of the impoverished is the first step to creating an egalitarian world. That's a threat to some of the industrial aristocratic elites.