According to the Financial Times this morning, India is planning a $20 laptop computer as a way of making distance learning accessible to that country's enormous rural population. Coming after MIT and Intel pretty much fought each other to a standstill trying to create a machine for six or eight times that amount, the plan is a wake-up call to anyone in the US who is thinking about serving developing-world markets.
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I think this is a very interesting idea with huge possibilities. It's going to be impressive to get a glimpse at the actual model, it's features, etc. I think it's a great idea, but I wonder how/if mass production would come about?
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