No amount of hype makes MIT $100 PC a reality
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LAST WEEK'S story on MIT's $100 PR, er laptop project stirred up interesting email from many different corners, but it didn't stop the 'Lights, Camera, Action, Negroponte!' show - with apologies to the Wiggles - at the UN Internet Summit in Tunis.
According to the PRganda, poverty-stricken children need $100 laptops for educational purposes and this will have a magical transformation on their lives – assuming that their families have the luxury to keep them, rather than to figure out a way to make a living with them.
LAST WEEK'S story on MIT's $100 PR, er laptop project stirred up interesting email from many different corners, but it didn't stop the 'Lights, Camera, Action, Negroponte!' show - with apologies to the Wiggles - at the UN Internet Summit in Tunis.
According to the PRganda, poverty-stricken children need $100 laptops for educational purposes and this will have a magical transformation on their lives – assuming that their families have the luxury to keep them, rather than to figure out a way to make a living with them.
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