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April 2007

$100 laptop now only $175?!
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I just read that the OLPC now is 75% more expensive than planned. It will be very interesting to see the reactions from the countries who signed up who now will need to cough up 75% more in costs. It is also an adjustment of $25 since only a month ago. It is also interesting that the Intel Classmate PC is only $75 more expensive. It seems to me that the visionary project underestimated challenges of the project.

You can read more about the changes of prices here.

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What to focus on
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Yesterday I had a dinner with a BBC correspondent Imtiaz Ali in Pakistan and Afghanistan. A wonderful person with some very intriguing stories on the area. Just before he left he share a truly insightful comment: We should focus on the similarities between people, not the differences.

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Cool…
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An intense week is coming to an end…
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This week has been an unusually intense ride. Yesterday was the first day it really slowed down for me to reflect on it. I have been booked between 8AM-11PM everyday even though the meetings have been amazing all the way through. Thursday’s visit of the US ambassadors in Sweden, Norway and Denmark was very intriguing and I had a lot of very interesting conversations.

Today, I even got the chance to relax with a book and enjoy an afternoon coffee on the roof.

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