How do you bridge the “digital divide” that exists between the have’s and have-not’s of today?
One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit organization that was started “to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves” seems to have one answer to the problem: build a super-cheap, and useful laptops and distribute them to the poorest communities in the world.
The “useful” is the operative word here, and they contracted the top-dog designers at Pentagram to come up with an interface that’s radically different from Apple’s windows-and-manila-folders model. Dubbed “Sugar“, it’s based on social network model and internet, and built around the learning habits of children. More than just a cheap and catchy gadget, the “$100 laptop” is a bewildering vision of the future classroom. –A
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