Will the one laptop per child initiative work?   stance: yes:
I'm embarassingly ignorant on the status of this project so perhaps some of you kind souls can fill me in.
I'm wholly convinced that a useful stipped-down laptop can be manufactured for less than $100. When travelling, I was always issued this super-handy Asus EEE which cost about $300 USD.
I'm also wholly convinced that access to information infrastructure is an essential part of nation-building, but Microsoft Powerpoint is not. (In fact, that inspires a new debate topic!) Perhaps somebody can clarify for me, will these laptops have access to the internet?