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By: Gavin Chait on 04 January 2007

In 1978 in the Australian outback - long before the advent of cheap computing - the School of the Air was launched. Teachers communicated with their students over ham-radio and thousands of kids got a first-class education remotely. 
 
If something similar were set up to allow distributed education online then the $ 100 laptop may have some utility. Whether this type of thing would be allowed in countries with dictatorial governments is another question. 
 
But, without having some form of linked and assisted education program, the $ 100 laptop will have little use. The $ 20 3G cellphone, on the other hand ...

 

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