1. Future of Living2. Future of Telecommunications3. Future of Computers4. Future of Television5. Future of Education

Future of LivingOmelet Theory of LifeComplexityConcurrency

Future of telecommunicationsDrift to natural geometriesMore wireless

Signals are photonsPower is electrons

Less carrier centric The water lily and the frogFlower box theory of telecom

Future of ComputersHeading to be material sciencesBelated speech recognitionEverything will be a display

Future of televisionTheme size, screen sizeAsynchronousPersonalized, including Ads

Future of EducationLearning by interactionThe end of nationalism

Kids will be far more globalMaine Experience -- OLPC

The basic principles:

1. Children are our most precious natural resource

2. The solution to poverty, peace, environment is education

3. Teaching is one but not the only way to achieve learning

An education project, not a laptop or cellphone project

Not two kids per laptop or one laptop per room

• Non-profit Association with$20M funding through NRE

• 3 rules: scale, scale, scalelaunch 7-10 million in 2007100-200 million 20087 large diverse countries

• Provided free to children

One Laptop Per Child

Partners: News CorpGoogleRed HatAMDNortelBrightstar Quanta

Pending: 3MeBay

Getting to the $100 Laptop

HOW:• No Sales, Marketing, Distribution• First Purchase Order 5-10M units• Linux• Reduce display cost leveraging backlight innovation

Gross Breakdown in Laptop Costs 2005

Display 25% Sales Marketing

Distribution 50%

Support of MSFT Windows XP 25%

OLPC Proposal$100 Laptop Cost 2005

Display

x

500 Mhz AMD x86 processor128M DRAM512M FLASH<2 W nominal, thus Wind-up3 or 4 USB portsWiFi mesh networkRuggedDual mode display

SPATIAL COLORBacklit, Transmissive

OLPC LCD DisplaySunlight Readable, Reflective

3 pixels 9 pixels

Dual Mode Display

7” 4x3 LCDDual mode:

B&W 1110x830 sunlight readable Color 640x480 backlit transmissive

>150 nits<1W

Open sourceSkinny LinuxInstant onFast and not a “gadget”

Parallel Commercial ChannelMaintenance by the kids

Design – not cheap, not toy

Quanta ConfidentialQUANTAMCL 7

The Design of Rotation

Rotated between the angles of ±180°

Mechanism Design Concept of Page Type

Closed as the page type

Opened at 90°

Closing lid

Characteristics and unique attributes:

durable/portable/multi-modes

(Mario Bellini for Olivetti)

book: overall

book: side with crank out

seed A: pivot screen

seed A: book mode

Manufacturing Milestones

12/13/05 1/14/06 2/24 4/3 5/9 7/26 9/22 11/22 2/5/07

Kick-offMajor design review

Design Spec frozen ID Ready

Ready for A-test (EVT)

Ready for B-test (DVT)

Ready for C-test (PVT)

Ready for manufacturing

Ready to ship

Critical items: -Cost -Power consumptions -ReliabilityCritical designs: - CPU+chip set - Dual mode LCD - Pieces of moving part

Regressive B-test (DVT)

(If needed)

April 30th Developer boardsMay 24th Prototype displayJuly 15th Alpha unitsNovember 15th Beta units

Seven countries + Massachusetts (maybe)

ChinaIndiaThailandEgyptNigeriaBrazilArgentina

Nov. 17 announced WSISDec. 12 Quanta agreed to buildMay 24 Learning Learning @ MITJuly ’06 final country commitmentQ3 ’06 developer prototypesQ4 ’06 education prototypesQ1 ’07 rollouts

TimeLine

Laptop price commitment

$100 target price in 2008Price will float (downwards)

tracking the cost of components$135 anticipated in 2007

constantly lowering$50 target price in 2010

National task force Hardware Connectivity Software Education Rollout Foreign Relations Public Relations

EconomicsInitial and launch:

Central government fundedSingle order

Subsequent:Philanthropic OrganizationsChild-to-child fundingCommercial subsidyAdopt-a-village

Etc.

Educational approach

Seamless, in and out of schoolConstructionistPeer-to-peer teachingOne laptop per childOne laptop per teacher

Country rollout

2007 – 1 million machinesViral training of teachers3-6 pilot regionsTotal saturationStrong developer community