Charlie Rose with James Kelly; Tommy Lee Jones; Nicholas Negroponte (December 16, 2005)
Gizmodo Australia (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Talking at the University of Pennsylvania yesterday, One Laptop per Child’s founder Nicholas Negroponte said that Steve Jobs helped in the development of the OLPC computer. Wait. What? (more…)
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Talking at the University of Pennsylvania yesterday, One Laptop per Child's founder Nicholas Negroponte said that Steve Jobs helped in the development of the OLPC computer. Wait. What? I got an email from Steve Jobs (the night the laptop was revealed) he said you can't build it for a hundred dollars, and my answer was oh yes I can. He was actually a very good critic, and each time we...
One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Have you ever played the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon with OLPC team members? I think you could make the case that OLPC is the center of the technology world - Nicholas Negroponte would get you pretty far, himself. Or more to the point, OLPC spin-offs? On this the Digital Lifestyle conjectures a hot idea OLPC's screen technology in the Apple Tablet: Mary Lou Jepsen, former OLPC chief technology...
One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Four years ago, Nicholas Negroponte introduced the world to the "One Laptop Per Child" idea at WSIS by showing off a "$100 laptop" with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The educational and technology fields haven't been the same since. More than photos of XO + kids - impact OLPC has impact deeper and farther than just XO's passed out or netbooks snapped up. Its changing...
One Laptop Per Child News (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
... materials to children would offer a quicker and possibly greater impact. Such a program would, as Nicholas Negroponte says, "leverage the children", to teach themselves in a country that lacks teachers and schools. I suggest that the distribution be in three stages:
