InfoCompanions » Patron Saint http://www.infocompanions.com Brain spasms of an enthusiast who loves to live at the intersection of business, innovation, process and technology Sun, 26 Sep 2010 16:37:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 One Laptop per Child, two years on http://www.infocompanions.com/one-laptop-per-child-two-years-on/ http://www.infocompanions.com/one-laptop-per-child-two-years-on/#comments Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:26:49 +0000 Himanshu Sharma http://www.infocompanions.net/test/?p=15 talks about how One per Child is doing, two years in. Speaking at the EG conference while the first XO laptops roll off the production line, he recaps the controversies and recommits to the goals of this far-reaching project.

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About Nicholas Negroponte:
A pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, Negroponte was perhaps best known for founding and directing MIT’s Media Lab, which helped drive the multimedia revolution and now houses more than 500 researchers and staff. An original investor in WIRED (and the magazine’s “patron saint”), for five years he penned a column exploring the frontiers of technology — ideas that he expanded into his 1995 best-selling book Being Digital. An angel investor extraordinaire, he’s funded more than 40 startups, and served on the boards of companies such as and .

But his latest effort, the One Laptop per Child project, may prove his most ambitious. The organization is manufacturing the XO (the “$100 laptop”), a wireless Internet-enabled, pedal-powered computer costing roughly $100. Negroponte hopes to put millions of these devices in the hands of the children in the developing world by 2010.

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