A Brilliant Idea

India is attempting to develop a $10 laptop in order to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor.

This is a brilliant idea - one that is bound to have profound impact on our global society. The more people have access to computers and the Internet, the more ideas can enter the marketplace. The more ideas, the more opportunities to develop the good ideas.

An American attempted this before and met resistance from Intel chip maker.

It comes as an answer to the One Laptop per Child project (OLPC) led by Nicholas Negraponte, the American scientist, which set out to produce a computer for $100. The US venture ran into problems when large companies including Intel, the biggest chip manufacturer, refused to co-operate.

Hopefully, Intel will regret it's intransigence and change their mind because this could be an amazing step forward for the human race.