in 2010 OLPC plans to release a new and improved laptop for the project. the plans include ditching the rubbery keyboard and instead has a square screen hinged in the middle that more or less resembles an e-book. the screens are touch screens an can mimic keyboard, books and etc. the new machine also promises to be more energy efficient and have a production cost closer to the aimed $100 per laptop as opposed to its current $188 cost.

this realtes a lot to the globalization trend we have been discussing in class. if the new economy is one in which capital, production, management, labor, technology and information are organized across national boarders then it only makes sense to consider ourselves part of a global economy. a global economy in which national trade barriers and egocentric barrier must fade in order for every involved party to prosper. giving laptops to children in africa is acknowledging that global technological literacy is essestial for further growth in the ever-expanding horizions of globalization