Yoshiki Ohshima presented at the first session today, the OLPC. Reiterating Alan Kay's call for content, Yoshiki recounted the development of the OLPC and Negroponte's vision for the laptop. The goal is education in the developing world rather than to simply produce a cheap laptop. The hardware and software is essentially in place, though content for applications such as Squeak Etoys is needed. The laptop, often referred to as "the $100 laptop," is currently coming in at around $175, though costs are expected to drop to the $100 range in 2008. One of the most amazing features of the OLPC is the 1200 x 900 display that uses 1/7 of the power and has 1/3 the cost of traditional LCD displays. Additionally, the OLPC includes wireless functionality based on the 802.11s (mesh network).
You can download his presentation here: http://imamp.colum.edu/eceim/squeakfest07/blog/YoshikiOLPCPresentationSF07.zip
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Thank you! I really meant was that hardware is almost in place, but some software is just barely above threshold, and other part of software is simply not. There are more work to do...
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