Nicholas Negroponte — American Businessman born on December 01, 1943,

Nicholas Negroponte is a Greek American architect. He is the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, and also founded the One Laptop per Child Association... (wikipedia)

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.
If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
Big companies are looking closer term, and even the most technological companies spend less than 1% of sales on research. Startups have suffered the burst bubble.
Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.