3. Future of telecommunications Drift to natural geometries More wireless Signals are photons Power is electrons Less carrier centric The water lily and the frog Flower box theory of telecom
4. Future of Computers Heading to be material sciences Belated speech recognition Everything will be a display
5. Future of television Theme size, screen size Asynchronous Personalized, including Ads
6. Future of Education Learning by interaction The end of nationalism Kids will be far more global Maine Experience -- OLPC
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8. The basic principles : 1. Children are our most precious natural resource 2. The solution to poverty, peace, environment is education 3. Teaching is one but not the only way to achieve learning
25. Manufacturing Milestones 12/13/05 1/14/06 2/24 4/3 5/9 7/26 9/22 11/22 2/5/07 Kick-off Major design review Design Spec frozen ID Ready Ready for A-test (EVT) Ready for B-test (DVT) Ready for C-test (PVT) Ready for manufacturing Ready to ship Critical items: -Cost -Power consumptions -Reliability Critical designs: - CPU+chip set - Dual mode LCD - Pieces of moving part Regressive B-test (DVT) (If needed) April 30 th Developer boards May 24 th Prototype display July 15 th Alpha units November 15 th Beta units
26. Seven countries + Massachusetts (maybe) China India Thailand Egypt Nigeria Brazil Argentina
27. Nov. 17 announced WSIS Dec. 12 Quanta agreed to build May 24 Learning Learning @ MIT July ’06 final country commitment Q3 ’06 developer prototypes Q4 ’06 education prototypes Q1 ’07 rollouts TimeLine
28. Laptop price commitment $100 target price in 2008 Price will float (downwards) tracking the cost of components $135 anticipated in 2007 constantly lowering $50 target price in 2010
29. National task force Hardware Connectivity Software Education Rollout Foreign Relations Public Relations
30. Economics Initial and launch: Central government funded Single order Subsequent: Philanthropic Organizations Child-to-child funding Commercial subsidy Adopt-a-village Etc.
31. Educational approach Seamless, in and out of school Constructionist Peer-to-peer teaching One laptop per child One laptop per teacher
32. Country rollout 2007 – 1 million machines Viral training of teachers 3-6 pilot regions Total saturation Strong developer community