I just came across an old OLPC video, recently posted, from January 2007, two years ago now. We have Walter Bender presenting One Laptop Per Child at the MIT Soapbox. Take a moment to float back in time to when Water was with OLPC, the XO laptop was the only netbook, and the future looked bright for children to learn learning in Brazil, Nigeria and Libya:
Now wasn't that a fun weekend flashback to 2007?
Posted by Wayan Vota on January 24, 2009 in People: Leadership
Tagged Hand Crank Laptop, MIT, OLPC Brazil, TamTam, View Source, Walter Bender
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