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<h1>Vision: Children in the developing world are inadequately educated</h1>
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<cite>"It's an education project, not a laptop project."</cite>
<p>— Nicholas Negroponte</p>
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<p>Our goal: To provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.
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<p>The project's origins stretch back more than four decades to the primordial days of computing, when most machines were still the size of small dinosaurs and next to no one dreamed they would ever be suitable for children. Pioneering thinkers such as Seymour Papert disagreed sharply, and over time would prove the immense power of the personal computer as a learning tool for children. Some of the key milestones in One Laptop per Child's long march from radical theory to reality.
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<p>The laptop generates a steady stream of international press coverage that promises to flow even deeper and faster as we move toward launch of our Generation One machines later this year. Click below for the OLPC latest news from everywhere, as well as an extensive archive of both print and electronic articles and videos.
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<p>OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte with a core of Media Lab veterans, but quickly expanded to include a wide range of exceptionally talented and dedicated people from academia as well as industry, the arts, business, and the open-source community. Each brings a unique skill set, and a deep personal passion, to the project.
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