A project that is going to change the world

This MIT effort has help from Allan Kay, Negroponte and other big names from the days of the invention of the PC. They have been working on this without a lot of press, but fixedly for several years. While a robust physical machine with a screen that isn't going to be an energy hog are important technological milestones, to me, the use of Linux and OS is an economic paradigm shift. Imagine a world of kids with computers they can use and when they think of something new for the computer to do, they can just figure out how to program that--no paying a middleman or being beholden to the rich capitalist from another country. News from PC Magazine: A Computer for Every Kid