>that what the third world really needs is a cheap laptop with a hand-crank on the side What One Laptop per Child was trying to do was bring education and the

>that what the third world really needs is a cheap laptop with a hand-crank on the side What One Laptop per Child was trying to do was bring education and the internet to third world countries that don't have it. It wasn't a plan to get rich, it was people realizing that a lot of third world problems stem from poor education, and a technical person's solution. I'm not sure why it failed exactly, but I know that Intel saw the laptop and made a "netbook" based on that concept that was naturally more expensive because it included all the things that OLpC was trying to avoid.