The Laptop Crusade
Tekla S. Perry · IEEE Spectrum · 2007
This paper discusses a laptop project, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. It's one of the biggest nonprofit technology-based projects and it's only the first phase of a program that seeks to put a staggering 100 million laptops into the hands of developing-world schoolchildren in the next couple of years. The One Laptop effort is just one of at least 20 low-cost computing initiatives under way worldwide. But it's the biggest, best-funded, and most hyped of all the initiatives, so it's the one that will almost certainly determine whether the mass distribution of PCs to children becomes an enduring component of national development or just another well-meaning but ultimately misguided experiment in social engineering