A few years ago, whenever you checked out a design blog, leafed through a design magazine, scanned the speakers at a design conference, or spotted a roster of design award winners, one name almost always appeared – One Laptop per Child.
t is nearly six years since the American technologist Nicholas Negroponte announced an extraordinarily audacious plan to design an appealing, inexpensive laptop computer, which, he promised, would help millions of the world’s poorest children transform their lives by fulfilling their educational potential. Having dominated the design debate for the next three or four years, OLPC, the nonprofit organization that he founded, has been considerably quieter of late. Whatever has happened to it? |
