Most people don’t realize that common sense is the real thing computers are missing,

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

In emerging nations, the issue isn’t connectivity,

Any previous doubt that a very-low-cost laptop could be made for education in the developing world has just gone away.

Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient’s point of view, that’s zero.

Studies have shown that kids take up computers much more easily in the comfort of warm, well-lit rich country living rooms, but also in the slums and remote areas all around the developing world.

We’ve been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the...

The idea is to have it play many roles so that the child takes it home, uses it for play, study. The whole theory is that learning is seamless, it’s not something you just do...

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.

Maine has shown the huge value of using a laptop across all of one’s studies. Maine’s program demonstrates how laptops can serve as a window into the world and a tool with which to think.

It might not be long before we have jackets that can recharge cell phones and you can be sure that is a jacket I’m going to wear more often. In an aging society, it would...

I’m not good at selling laptops. I’m good at selling ideas.

And what’s really frightening, or interesting, depending on your perspective, is that the change from now will even be faster and bigger than we’re expecting.

By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

So when we make this available, it is an education project, not a laptop project. The digital divide is a learning divide – digital is the means through which children learn leaning. This is, we...

This is just the beginning, the beginning of understanding that cyberspace has no limits, no boundaries.

Red Hat’s experience and core strategy of open collaboration made them a natural fit with this project. Open source and Linux will both reach and engage people in the rest of the world.

People aren’t thinking about small, fast, thin systems. Suddenly it’s like a very fat person (who) uses most of the energy to move the fat. And Linux is no exception. Linux has gotten fat, too.