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Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance

Global Published 27 September 2026, 17:25 · archived 27 Sep 2026

The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away, […]

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