Nicholas Negroponte: the Sugar daddy for future generations
It’s not too hard to think up grandiose ideas to change the world, but very few people attempt to put them into effect – and even fewer succeed. Nicholas Negroponte, founder and chairman emeritus of MIT’s Media Lab, made the attempt with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, and he isn’t beaten yet.
OLPC is distributing more than 1m XO-1 laptops, and they’re robust enough to survive in the most remote parts of the world. He happily performs his party trick, and pitches the little green laptop across the hotel room floor. It still works.
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