This is an article to promote the One Laptop Per Child initiative.

1. The Enlightenment of Mankind
By Bob Pauley
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comesto us by writing out our goalsand making every effort to
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them. If they're worthwhile they will be recalledon a lMiki.
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When Jimbo Wales,a computergeek,wantedto createthe ultimate encyclopedia didn't go out and hire the
he
peopleof every subject
most brilliant minds on earth.You know what he did? He askedthe most knowledgeable
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for a little bit of their expertise...each...and
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they
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who hasaccess it...copyrightfree for the benefitof mankind.And then camellikihow. Wikihow.com
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Which meanssharingfreely for the greatergood of
volunteers...under copyrightrule of CreativeCommons.
the
mankind.
And now, a proposal. ..Wikitext.You're gonnalike this...a lot. Imaginea world whereany person earth,and
on
everypersonon earth,sharein the knowledgethat will educate planet.Imaginethat textbooksbecome
the
secondary the educators the world unite to write, in Wikipedicfashion,all the knowledgeof all the textbooks
as of
gratison the Internet.
Imagineall the students all the schoolsin this land and beyondcarrying all thoseheavytextbooksaroundin
of
backpacks the very last time. Imaginethe price of laptop computers beencrunchedto enableone laptop
for has
just like thoseinexpensive
for everyschoolagechild on the planet...solar powered calculators seeat the Wal-
we
Mart...for lessthanthe price of one child's average
loadof textbooks...containing in
more knowledge that $188
laptopthanall thebooksin their schoollibraries...combined!
Wikitext.It's not in your dictionaryyet.. .but it will be one day. And how quickly that day arrivesdepends,
You, you, you, you and me. Believe it!
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