Article: Vision evolves, but $100 laptop is still the goal

On the Hot Seat

Nicholas Negroponte

founder, One Laptop Per Child Foundation

In 2005, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nicholas Negroponte's idea of distributing $100 laptops to poor children captured the world's imagination. Today, Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child foundation of Cambridge has begun distributing hundreds of thousands of its XO laptops around the world. Globe reporter Hiawatha Bray spoke with Negroponte for a progress report.

Q. How many of the XO laptops are now deployed in developing countries?

A. Five hundred thousand have been committed, 250,000 have been manufactured and half of those have arrived. They have arrived in Uruguay. They have arrived in Peru. ...

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