American - Businessman | December 1, 1943 -
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
Nicholas Negroponte
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We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
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We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.
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It's hard to propose a $100 laptop for a world community of kids and then not say in the same breath that you're going to depend on the community to make software for it.
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Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.
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Key is the question of where do new ideas come from. Historically, four places: government labs, big corporations, startup companies, and research universities.
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Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.
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We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards.
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Access by kids to the Internet should be like kids breathing clean air.
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Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
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My goal is not selling laptops. OLPC is not in the laptop business. It's in the education business.
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One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with two million kids running the XO? And the answer is yes. We want kids connected and the largest possible number is the goal.
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