$100 Laptops For The Third World?

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$100 Laptops For The Third World?

By Robert Paul Reyes
Apr. 19, 2006

If you don't have Internet access, you are not hooked up to the vital flow of information, commerce and entertainment that comprises 21st century life.

If you don't have a computer, it's like being deprived of the nutrients that your body needs to thrive.

Google is helping develop a $100 laptop computer for developing countries.

The inexpensive "laptop" is powered by a crank (I'm not kidding), it doesn't have a hard drive,it has no software to speak of, and it has a miniscule screen. That's not a laptop, that's a glorified "Etch A Sketch."

Dumping millions of "Etch A Sketch" laptops on undeveloped countries, is not the answer to the misery and poverty that afflicts the Third World.

Even if we supplied impoverished nations with top of the line computers, it wouldn't do any good. Most of these states are cursed with ineffectual leadership and corrupt governments, providing them with computers is like casting pearl before swine.

When a poor nation takes steps towards democracy, and doesn't tolerate widespread governmental corruption -- then we should supply them with our technology.

Google would be wise to spend their millions in discretionary income in helping bridge the digital divide in America. They have the loot to provide good computers to the disadvantaged here in the land of milk and honey.

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About the author: Robert Paul Reyes has written over 200 articles for Useless-Knowledge.com.

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