Technology and the access to information that it brings has long been considered a huge benefit to education. An organization with lofty goals and noble intent tried to change the world with a $100 laptop, but found out the hard way that doing so is much more complicated than it seems.

Sources:
Mess of AC adapters photo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC_XO...
Solar panel photo: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/File:XO_and...
Clamp charger photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Steve Jobs photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Nicholas Negroponte photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
"The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality", The Wall Street Journal, November 14, 2005.
OLPC with Windows XP boot screen photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nirak/2...
"Microsoft to Try Windows XP Out on OLPC in January," https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/PCW...
Asus EeePC photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Engadget XO1.5 article: https://www.engadget.com/20090418x...
XO1.5 motherboard photo: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/9/93/XO...
XO1.75 laptop photo: http://wiki.laptop.org/images/e/e2/XO...
XO1.75 laptop photo: http://blog.laptop.org/2012/09/04/are...
The Verge article about the XO4: https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/6/384...
Psivewri's XO4 video:    • This Weird Laptop Looks Like Shrek! ...  
Nicholas Negroponte TED talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/nicholas_ne...
"The Charisma Machine" by Morgan Ames: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/charis...

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