I can't wait to see what people do with the OLPC PC when it becomes widely available. Imagine walking into a doctor's office or an auto mechanic's store and finding a few OLPC PCs just in case you haven't brought your own to read from. You pick it up, turn it on, and pick out your favorite blog or news site while you wait. If the e-book industry gets their act together, you should be able to read magazines the business subscribes to presented just as if they were printed. One hundred USD for a convertible notebook-tablet is almost here. Why aren't the publishing houses ready? Newspapers are going to die if they can't fully transfer into truly portable electronics
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