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OLPC moving to $50

Nicholas Negroponte’s presentation of the American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences revealed production of his OLPC units have surpassed 110,000/month. The conference theme is “Science and Technology from a Global Perspective” is underway in Boston this week.

He has also projected next year the price will drop to $100/unit, the original price tag when the project began…and should drop to just $50 in 2011.

Tags: OLPC, Negroponte, globalization, trends