OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to save the world. Where is it now?

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to save the world. Where is it now?

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It was supposed to be the laptop that saved the world. In late 2005, tech visionary and MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte pulled the cloth cover off a small green computer with a bright yellow crank. The device was the first working prototype for Negroponte’s new nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, dubbed “the green…

Infinity:One is OLPC XO’s bigger, more responsible sibling | The Verge

Infinity:One is OLPC XO’s bigger, more responsible sibling | The Verge

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Remember One Laptop Per Child? They distributed a few million cheap, brightly-colored XO laptops running a weird version of Linux called “Sugar OS,” and then… what happened? Well, I’m not sure actually. But OLPC Australia is carrying the torch, sort of. This offshoot now calls itself “One Education,” and has just announced the Infinity:One. Gone…