Comments on: The $100 laptop moves closer to reality

MIT's Nicholas Negroponte lays out a design for a low-cost PC with a twist: Windup power and an innovative display.

[shirleywurley]

$100 laptop

I have a nonprofit organization in Haiti and I would truly love to get my hands on these machines for schools here. Everyone is so svery far behind. I have a small school but am working to open schools in Haiti for kids who have never seen the inside of a school. We need so much, but I am very interested in getting in on the ground floor of this project.
Thanks so much for helping us all.

[shirleywurley]

$100 laptop

I have a nonprofit organization in Haiti and I would truly love to get my hands on these machines for schools here. Everyone is so svery far behind. I have a small school but am working to open schools in Haiti for kids who have never seen the inside of a school. We need so much, but I am very interested in getting in on the ground floor of this project.
Thanks so much for helping us all.

[budge86]

misguided technological ideology

The $100 Laptop project has recieved alot of hype and has sparked alot of attention around technology as being the cure for the third world ills. Negroponte delivered a speech at MIT at the iniatial developmental stage of the project. Negroponte stated that when children in rural asia were given the laptop as part of the pilot study, The children's families were amazed at the light source the screen provided.. as there is no electricity in the homes. I believe that this finding alone provides insight on the lack of basic supportive infrastructure for this project to take off and sustain itself. Laptops are not going to better the living condition of those in poverty when basic needs have yet to be met.

[budge86]

misguided technological ideology

The $100 Laptop project has recieved alot of hype and has sparked alot of attention around technology as being the cure for the third world ills. Negroponte delivered a speech at MIT at the iniatial developmental stage of the project. Negroponte stated that when children in rural asia were given the laptop as part of the pilot study, The children's families were amazed at the light source the screen provided.. as there is no electricity in the homes. I believe that this finding alone provides insight on the lack of basic supportive infrastructure for this project to take off and sustain itself. Laptops are not going to better the living condition of those in poverty when basic needs have yet to be met.

[Theopolphilus]

I do not understand the concept of criticizing a good work on the basis that some other good work is needed more. If you think another world problem needs addressing or this problem ought to be addressed in a different way, then get at it by all means. I will support your efforts unless I think they are futile or harmful. I am impressed anytime a person does something for someone else. I will be happy if this project succeeds.

[SUNSHINE2940]

I'm all for helping children, but what about the children IN AMERICA!!! who would benefit from this program as well. I think as a nation we have turned our back on OUR OWN children. These poor countries are not going to be able to afford these laptops and even if they can will they have the means to keep a wireless connection much less pay for it!!

I am so sick of people in AMERICA giving more to minorities rather than the people who are U.S citizens. I tried to enroll my kids in a private school here in the city we live, becacuse we are u.s. citizens and not part of a minority we were not affored any typ of help. Something is wrong here!!