At first I was excited by this project. Then, my wife, who is a teacher at an international school here in Penang, Malaysia, said, ‘does the world really need laptops? What about books? What about better educated teachers?’ She makes a great point. Are cheap and mass-produced laptops (no matter how cool they are for technophiles) really going to solve the world’s educational problems? Picture a classroom full of students paying no attention to one another and staring for hours at an illuminated screen… (I apologize for two sequential posts- I am a new and overly excited user.)