这个想法宏大、激动人心且鼓舞人心：如果我们能让世界上每个孩子都能接触到电脑会怎样？对于硅谷的一群思想家和高管来说，这感觉像是解决一切问题的途径。但“一台笔记本电脑一个孩子”计划，以及设计用于免费赠送的 XO-1 笔记本电脑，都比任何人预期的更复杂。
The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away, were both more complicated than anyone expected.
在下一期节目中，David Pierce 将与 的 Adi Robertson 和科技记者 David Imel 一起探讨为什么 OLPC 失败了，XO-1 创新设计是否有什么可取之处，以及这种电脑赠送模式是否曾经能成功。我们已经走了一半……
In the next episode of David Pierce is joined by 's Adi Robertson and tech journalist David Imel to figure out why OLPC didn't work, whether there's anything to learn from the XO-1's innovative design, and if this kind of computer giveaway could ever succeed. We're halfway t …