Hope

Hope?

What If Every Kid Had a Computer? Before you get carried away all the downloading of music, porn, ringtones etc etc jokes. Just think about the possibilities? What if you could just think? Well as crazy as this idea may sound MIT Assistant Professor Joseph Jacobson is trying to bring this idea to life. Whether this grand and noble idea comes to fruition or not the point is that there are still people out there trying to get information into the hands of the masses. Let us be honest here the "digital divide" still exist and many people do not have access to a computer.

So not only is this grand attempt a good deed but beyond all the altruistic principle involve in this endeavor we have the opportunity to unleash a new wave of innovators. Innovation often comes from the most obscure sources and people. "in 1905 there were hundreds of Professors who were renowned for their study of the universe... But it was a 26 year old Swiss Patent clerk, doing physics in his spare time, who changed the world..."

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