Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

While a significant part of learning certain comes from teaching - but good teaching and by good teachers - a major measure comes from exploration, from reinventing the wheel and finding out for oneself.

In Uruguay, the President of the country announced that this would be his legacy, "One laptop per child."

The laptop brings back a more seamless kind of learning.

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living. Whatever big problem you can imagine, from world peace to the environment to hunger to poverty, the solution always includes education, ... We need to depend more on peer-to-peer and self-driven learning. The laptop is one important means of doing that.

It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.