The $100 Laptop
One Laptop Per Child is a non profit organization whose goal is to give children in developing countries access to computer technology. It’s a noble goal.
These laptops, with wireless but without hard drive, are designed to be easy to use and help these under privileged people gain access to the worlds prosperity.
The laptops have a rechargeable battery but can be powered also by a car battery or a hand crank.
I think this is fantastic, with one exception. That exception is the United States. The One Laptop Per Child program specifically excludes the under privileged in the United States.
As a person who is well aware of some of the rural, maybe a bit backward, areas of this country where people applaud the opening of a Super Walmart so they have access to a $9/hr job, even though statistics show that Super Walmarts are long term detrimental to the economic well being of their county, I ask “Why?”
Why is it that what’s good for the rest of the worlds poor isn’t good for our poor? Our poor only get hand outs from the government when they can coalesce into a large enough voting block to get some politicians notice. And that usually only happens in the inner city.
If the laptop only costs $100 to make due to mass production, then our poor should have access at $100 too.
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