{"id":87613834,"date":"2005-02-07T22:48:04","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T06:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613834"},"modified":"2005-02-20T20:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-21T04:13:00","slug":"here-comes-the-mouse-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87613834","title":{"rendered":"Here comes the mouse army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via Boing-Boing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=mozclient&#038;ie=utf-8&#038;oe=utf-8&#038;q=nicholas+negroponte\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Negroponte<\/a>, chairman and founder of MIT&#8217;s Media Labs, says he is developing a laptop PC that will go on sale for less than $100.  <b>He<\/b> told the BBC World Service programme Go Digital he hoped it would become an education tool in developing countries.  <b>He<\/b> said one laptop per child could be &#8221; very important to the development of not just that child but now the whole family, village and neighbourhood&#8221;.  <b>He<\/b> said the child could use the laptop like a text book.  <b>He<\/b> described the device as a stripped down laptop, which would run a Linux-based operating system, <\/p>\n<p> <i>{and then Negroponte requested &#8220;Please start a sentence with something other than <b>he<\/b>.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Check out the story <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/4243733.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><b>He<\/b>re<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Boing-Boing Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and founder of MIT&#8217;s Media Labs, says he is developing a laptop PC that will go on sale for less than $100. He told the BBC World Service programme Go Digital he hoped it would become an education tool in developing countries. He said one laptop per child could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}