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OLPC To Be Distributed To US Students
eldavojohn writes "The One Laptop Per Child Project plans to launch OLPC America in 2008 , to distribute the low-cost laptop computers originally intended for developing nations to needy students here in the United States. Nicholas Negroponte is quoted as saying, 'We are doing something patriotic, if you will, after all we are and there are poor children in America. The second thing we're doing is building a critical mass. The numbers are going to go up, people will make more software, it will steer a larger development community.'"
How else are we going to teach our children to use L O L and trendy emoticons in their academic papers?
Someone hasn't been paying attention
http://www.xkcd.com/354/
Finally, disadvantaged students will have something to prop up their wobbly desks.