$100 laptop for the world's poor (or just for the world)

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8338 [Published: 22-Nov-05 | Permalink | Category: Science seen]
Cheaper than any phone I can see from where I'm sitting right now. I'd love one. I don't think they should be labelled as for the poor - they're for everyone.
Later: Kofi Annan broke the handle off the prototype, apparently. But any savvy kid would fix that.
Much later: I really hope this project works out. The internet is too American right now (this is nothing to do with ICANN and the infrastructure; I mean the content) and a billion or so kids from the East and the South will change it utterly, and interestingly. And they'll be using and programming open source.

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