RED HERRING | The hundred-buck PC

RED HERRING | The hundred-buck PC "An engineering prototype is nearly ready, with alpha units expected by year’s end and real production around 18 months from now, he said. The portable PCs will be shipped directly to education ministries, with China first on the list. Only orders of 1 million or more units will be accepted."

This is an old dream that hopefully will come true. In combinantion with Wimax and GNU/Linux one can just guess the speed of economic growth in Africa. Instead of educating people for braindrain or no jobs, there will be many new opportunities in e-healt, e-education, e-business, e-engineering, e-government...