Keep Going - A Guide to Unlocking Success

Keep Going - A Guide to Unlocking Success

The OLPC XO was the little green laptop that tried to change the world

It was supposed to give everyone access to computing. Then we got the smartphone.

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John Biggs
Aug 28, 2026
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In the mid-2000s, MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte had a wild idea: what if every child in the developing world had a computer? And this wasn’t some smoky gaming cafe or a school computer. It was a machine that the child owned and could use every day. I twas connected to the nascent internet, had a simple operating system, and was rugged enough to surv…

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