On Monday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen interviewed Nicholas Negroponte, who has said that his One Laptop per Child program for kids in impoverished countries will ultimately kill the printed book.
While I think that’s of course going much too far, the interview does illustrate that the laptops allow children to access more books than will ever be physically shipped to these remote locations. Also, while the laptops do come at a cost of $180 each, the cost of regularly shipping physical books to many of these areas could be far more expensive. Negroponte's program has distributed two million laptops so far.
Check out the interview, seen in the second half of the episode, and the One Laptop per Child website.
-- Heather Walrath
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