{"id":856,"date":"2005-11-29T12:53:10","date_gmt":"2005-11-29T20:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=856"},"modified":"2005-11-29T12:53:10","modified_gmt":"2005-11-29T20:53:10","slug":"waiting-for-that-100-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/29\/waiting-for-that-100-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for That $100 Laptop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2131201\/\">Slate<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>By Cyrus Farivar<br \/>\nPosted Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005, at 3:31 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>At the World Summit on the Information Society two weeks ago, MIT&#8217;s Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the laptop he believes will digitize the developing world. The cute green computer sports a WiFi card, a 500 MHz processor, a 1 gigabyte flash drive, and a novel power source\u00e2\u20ac\u201da 6-inch hand crank that juts out from the side. It will run free, open-source software, most likely some derivation of Linux. All of this for the low, low price of just $100.<\/p>\n<p>Negroponte promises that bringing cheap laptops to countries like Brazil, Thailand, and Egypt will help &#8220;children to &#8216;learn learning&#8217; through independent interaction and exploration.&#8221; That might be true, but this green machine won&#8217;t be the computer to do it, no matter how much Kofi Annan and the international press fawn over it. The $100 laptop is a huckster&#8217;s gambit\u00e2\u20ac\u201dpoorly thought out, overly ambitious, and too sexy to be true. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate: By Cyrus Farivar Posted Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005, at 3:31 PM ET At the World Summit on the Information Society two weeks ago, MIT&#8217;s Nicholas Negroponte unveiled the laptop he believes will digitize the developing world. The cute green computer sports a WiFi card, a 500 MHz processor, a 1 gigabyte flash drive, and a novel power source\u00e2\u20ac\u201da 6-inch hand crank that juts out from the side. It will run free, open-source software, most likely some derivation of Linux.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,103,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-100-laptop","category-journalism","category-tech-in-far-off-lands","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}