I will Get That Nobel Peace Prize Yet!
Scott Adams at The Dilbert Blog - I will Get That Nobel Peace Prize Yet!:
"The $100 laptops we keep hearing about will eventually give Internet access to even small villages. Imagine having a pen pal in some tiny African village. You learn that all they need is one of those foot-operated water pumps for irrigating fields and a bag of seeds and they can build a decent life. For a few hundred dollars you could save an entire village and get to see the results in real time. Who could resist?"