The $100 Laptop: Manna-vaporware

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teemu Leinonen: The $100 Laptop: Manna-vaporware, FLOSSE Posse December 7, 2005

In an airport conversation in Calgary recently I commented - cynically - that MIT had gotten a lot of publicity over a product that does not exist. The topic was the $100 computer, which had been introduced at WSIS. Such scepticism, it seems, is not limited to my suspicious mind. Teemu Leinonen poses two questions that defy easy answers: "Why the only use case the MIT people talk about is delivering school books with the $100 Laptop?". More...