I ran across this blog by Ethan Zuckerman, via Chris Lehmann, about the subversive power of the $100 laptop.
The post also spells out exactly what the laptop is for.
Getting across the distinction that this is a children’s laptop, not just a cheap laptop, is a surprisingly difficult task. When I last wrote about the laptop on Worldchanging, a number of commenters mentioned that they’d like one of the computers as a backup or travel computer - I suspect they might feel differently after playing with one of the current prototypes. They’re really small. This is a good thing - I wouldn’t want a kindergarden student carrying around my 12″ PowerBook - it’s too heavy and too fragile. The current prototype is little, orange, and very, very cute. It has a molded plastic handle and looks remarkably like a Speak and Spell.
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