Sub-$100 Laptops

This is SO exciting.

Imagine being in the middle of an isolated African community or an impoverished urban American neighbourhood. You're segregated from art music (well, pretty much everything!) by the cultural divide, the digital divide, the everything-else-divide... right? Wrong.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology just announced that the much-mooted sub-$100 hand-powered, Wi-Fi enabled laptop is now a reality. The possibility for information flow and education in the less developed world suddenly becomes extraordinarily huge. I'm just praying that it has built in speakers...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4292854.stm