MIT to launch $100 laptop prototype in November
The MIT Media Laboratory expects to launch a prototype of its $100 laptop in November, according to Nicholas Negroponte, the lab's chairman and co-founder. The facility has been working with industry partners to develop a notebook computer for use by children in primary and secondary education around the world, particularly in developing countries. The laptops should start appearing in volume in late 2006.
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How can inner city children
How can inner city children experience the possiblities of this technology? It appears everyone in technology is so concerned about developing and underdeveloped countries while not realizing that in our own educational system we are developing and becoming more underdeveloped.