The brainchild of MIT's Nicholas Negroponte, Laptop XO, a.k.a. the $100 laptop, is aiming to land in 10 million children's hands in undeveloped countries by the end of 2008.
Some 50 million of the laptops will be delivered by 2010, and 150 million thereafter - with the goal of distributing a laptop to every child in the undeveloped world, according to Next Generation.
The beauty of the laptops is that they are open source, allowing kids not only to play games, use applications and communicate with others but also to see how the software works and potentially remake their online world.
"Eventually, we'll look back on this moment as the beginning of something that changed the world for the better and completely transformed economies the process. And it'll happen in our lifetime," said Daniel Ostenso, Assoc. Professor at the Illinois Institute of Art at Chicago.
