[Mr. Blonde]

Interesting project.

The Cyborg and the Noble Savage -- Ethics in the war on information poverty

OLPC designers accepted the challenge to create a powerful lap-top computer that can operate reliably in regions that have no electricity, that can network with peers in regions without telephone cables or cellular hubs, that can endure rough handling in dusty or humid conditions, that can display information clearly in sunshine or in shade, that can capture and record photographs or moving pictures with sound, that offers tight security adjustable to the user's needs, that is rich with multi-media resources for communication and for learning, that is immediately adaptable to eight different languages with four different alphabets and that can do all of this for a price point of $100!

The name of the children's machine is "XO", christened for the childlike icon that is presented to the user interface. The computers themselves require no external power source. They are intended to communicate with each other in a wireless mesh network4 within a locality that ideally includes a central server5 at a local school or community house.

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