Originally published at: https://eduk8.me/2018/05/olpcs-100-laptop-was-going-to-save-the-world-where-is-it-now/
It was supposed to be the laptop that saved the world. In late 2005, tech visionary and MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte pulled the cloth cover off a small green computer with a bright yellow crank. The device was the first working prototype for Negroponte’s new nonprofit One Laptop Per Child, dubbed “the green…