Past Programs
Computers and Technology - 2008
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One laptop per child
22/03/2008
It was the ambition of Kevin Rudd during the last election and it is the plan being realised by Nicholas Negroponte of MIT. The only way Professor Negroponte can realise his dream is by having cheap laptops, costing $100, or eventually, less. How is this done? And what difference do these computers make in the villages of Africa, South America and Asia? Professor Negroponte, founder of the Media Lab at MIT and author of the bestseller Being Digital, talks to an audience in Boston, Massachusetts.
Cell phone that reads
01/03/2008
Ray Kurzweil describes a cell phone or mobile phone that can take a picture of text and then reads the text. It's for blind and dyslexic people.
