Designing computers for the world's poor
Computers are seen as powerful tools for education and economic development in the third world. Several efforts to design a cheap, yet rugged and useful PC have mostly fallen flat. But there are new designs out there from the likes of Microsoft and technology luminary Nicholas Negroponte.
CNET News.com editor-at-large Michael Kanellos says there are a couple of reasons why no computer design has been successful on a large scale.
