One Laptop per Child

Link: One Laptop per Child. The OLPC project, about which I blogged in June of this year, OLPC - Best Use For Your Charitable Dollar? , is getting to the prototype point. The design is being tested in the field. It has to be child proof (that means dropped, kicked, thrown and every other thing), and the price point, now around $200, has to get down to $100. However, when accomplished, putting computer power into the hands of the world's least fortunate children will do more for world peace and harmony than all the world's armies can. Gee, what if we spent a billion dollars of money earmarked for weapons on laptops for kids? What a concept!