$100 Laptop

File this under "shit that makes an incredible amount of sense". i am so insanely pumped to see this product becoming a reality.

i see the hundred dollar laptop as a systematic solution to not simply bridging the digital divide - but to addressing so many imbalances in the world.


coupled with web2.0 portals such as wikipedia, and online applications like googledocs - this item represents a real opportunity for many to join the world...

this isn't rice or an aids vaccine. but since the information age started a little while back, some of us believe that ideas are what really change things.

think.

think what this means.

if people knew

• that FGM is unnecessary and ironically sick
  
• the aids virus doesn't wash off with a shower
• a tyrant is just a local thug
  
• that injustice has a voice
  

this is the proverbial feeding of the five thousand brought to life.