The Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article on the $100 laptop project last week. The main thrust of the article was that the One Laptop per Child project, which has overseen development and production of the $100 laptop, has suffered severe setbacks and is nowhere close to meeting its target of distributing 150 million laptops by the end of 2008. The reason for the demise of the One Laptop per Child project? The private sector, feeling threatened, decided to do it on their own.
Dr. Negroponte, the head of the One Laptop per Child project, may feel let down but this seems like a success to me.
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