The laptop idea is great. The content is what matters however. If it’s filled with Bolivarian revolutionary swill, what’s the worth of that?

One of our prime exports in the future needs to be education, you can fit a basic K-12 education on a single chip now. Connected to the network, you can keep that content current.

Education is going to undergo great changes over the next 15 years, and the technophobe homeschoolers aren’t going to be able to keep up.

With open content now appearing at several universities, you can also get a college level education minus the diploma on the cheap if you are willing to put in the time.

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