A look back at Nicholas Negroponte's 1998 predictions for the future of retail and the realities of today's markets.
Oddly humble Negroponte lists OLPC’s failures, calls Sugar a ‘mistake’ The noble goal of a $100 laptop for developing nations has come to fruition — but of course at a higher cost and later date than expected. One Laptop Per Child has succeeded in delivering 900,000 XO laptops into the hands of kids, but that’s a far cry from the many millions expected and Chairman Nicholas Negroponte is pulling no punches in describing what went wrong. He’s still bitter at Intel , claiming it worke
We think it's pretty safe to say that the original plan of the One Laptop per Child organization has went down the drain but since its essence was noble, the basic idea of improving education by providing laptops to kids all around the world, it set to live on. Speaking at the TED 2009 conference, OLPC founder and chief, Nicholas Negroponte spoke about a shift in the nonprofit's way of achieving its goal. Since its XO laptop wasn't as successful as planned, OLPC intends to simply move from d
February 3rd To See Rs 500 Laptop Display Submitted by Darpana Kutty on Sat, 01/31/2009 - 09:18. Technology News Featured TNM Andhra Pradesh Tirupati On 3rd February, when the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology is launched; the people would also see a $10 laptop (Rs 500) prototype, with 2 GB RAM capacity, would be on display in Tirupati. The latest $10 laptop project has arrived as a response to the $100 laptop of MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, which