I have been dreaming for more than 10 years to have a laptop of my own. Since, I live in a third world country, I can only continue to dream but not get one, as a laptop is very expensive for most people in South Asia. So, for me, the best thing to hope for is having a $100 laptop under the One Laptop per Child (OLPC). Alas! I am not a child anymore and I do not have a child of my own yet. So, for me, there is no hope. However, I am happy that for millions of children in the third world countries, OLPC is going to bring real hope for a better life. I am very happy that the laptops are coming to the children very soon. I am quoting from a report of Daily India:
" The first low cost laptops aimed at closing the digital divide between industrial nations and the developing world are to be released for testing in India, Egypt, Nigeria, China, Thailand, Brazil and Argentina.
The initiative to provide the laptops selling at a price of $100 each was started by Internet visionary Nicholas Negroponte at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005.
The 'One laptop per Child' project is directed mainly at school children in developing countries. The initiative recently presented 15 orange-coloured prototypes of the plastic computers."
I am happy for the rural children of India. Although, India is shining in outsourcing, children of poor background in India cannot dream of using a computer.
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