Everybody agrees that whatever the solutions are to the big problems, they... can never be without some element of education.

We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.