Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance.

For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything.
In the next episode of Version History, David Pierce is joined by The Verge’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. The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to be given away, were both more complicated than anyone expected. .