{"id":615573,"date":"2009-12-23T13:25:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlt.fandm.edu\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2009-12-23T13:25:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T18:25:19","slug":"the-75-future-computer-%e2%80%93-forbes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/615573","title":{"rendered":"The $75 Future Computer  \u2013 Forbes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='snap_preview'><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/12\/22\/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html?feed=rss_technology\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/tltatfandm.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/1222_one-laptop-map_390x220.jpg?w=780\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the designs for what could someday be the world&#8217;s cheapest PC, and you may start to wish you were a third-grade child in Burundi.<\/p>\n<p>One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s non-profit effort aimed at putting cheap educational laptops into the hands of developing world schoolchildren, is working on an upgrade to its so-called XO computer, once known as the &#8220;hundred-dollar laptop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That revamped machine, known as the XO-3 and targeted for release in 2012, is still more of a pipe dream than a product. But early designs for the PC reveal a minimalist slate of touch-powered electronics that drops practically every feature of a traditional computer except its 8.5-by-11-inch screen, a scheme that would shed all of the first XO&#8217;s child-like clunkiness without losing its simple accessibility.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/12\/22\/tablet-computer-negroponte-technology-cio-network-olpc.html?feed=rss_technology\">The $75 Future Computer  &#8211; Forbes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1140\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at the designs for what could someday be the world&#8217;s cheapest PC, and you may start to wish you were a third-grade child in Burundi. One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte&#8217;s non-profit effort aimed at putting cheap educational laptops into the hands of developing world schoolchildren, is working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2A8B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}