MIT's Nicholas Negroponte on his "Laptop for every Child" education project


	MIT's Nicholas Negroponte on his "Laptop for every Child" education project

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3-20-2007 1:39 PM

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$100 laptop, social entrepreneur, bop, bottom of the pyramid, next 4 billion, education

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