Will the One Laptop Per Child Project Change the World?

Nicholas Negroponte and his MIT Media Lab have developed a $100, wind-up, wifi-enabled, Linux-powered, diskless laptop in a project dubbed One Laptop Per Child. For years the critics have said it couldn't be done and if it were, it would be a flop. But the project pressed on unfazed, signed on big-time industry players like AMD, Google, Redhat and Quanta, and secured agreements from several countries around the world to buy the laptops for their schoolchildren. Now as mass manufacture of the laptop nears reality, what everyone wants to know is, will this laptop change the world?

Visit the One Laptop Per Child web site and see for yourself.