Friday, May 25, 2007

A laptop for every child ...

Saw this last Sunday on 60 minutes ... and have been thinking about it since.

Some good quotes :


"The first English word of every child in that village was 'Google'," he says. "The village has no electricity, no telephone, no television. And the children take laptops home that are connected broadband to the Internet."

When they take the laptops home, the kids often teach the whole family how to use it. Negroponte says the families loved the computers because, in a village with no electricity, it was the brightest light source in the house.

Watch the piece here...

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hey Mike,
For more information on this topic check out the following link:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/41