Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance

为什么“每个孩子一台笔记本电脑”（OLPC）的 100 美元电脑计划注定失败

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

这个想法宏大、令人兴奋且充满启发：如果我们能让全世界的每个孩子都能使用电脑会怎样？对于硅谷的一群思想家和高管来说，这似乎是解决一切问题的良方。但“每个孩子一台笔记本电脑”（OLPC）倡议，以及旨在免费发放的 XO-1 笔记本电脑，其复杂程度都远超所有人的预期。

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.

在下一期《Version History》播客中，David Pierce 将与 The Verge 的 Adi Robertson 以及科技记者 David Imel 一起探讨 OLPC 为何失败、我们能从 XO-1 的创新设计中学到什么，以及这种电脑捐赠模式是否真的能够成功。

We’re halfway through the fifth season of Version History and we’ve been touring the educational tech icons in schools. If you missed hearing from the lead game designer of Oregon Trail or just how much The Verge’s Nilay Patel loved his TI-82 graphing calculator, check out those episodes here.

《Version History》第五季已经过半，我们一直在回顾校园里的教育科技标志性产品。如果你错过了《俄勒冈之旅》（Oregon Trail）首席游戏设计师的访谈，或者想了解 The Verge 的 Nilay Patel 是多么钟爱他的 TI-82 图形计算器，请点击此处收听往期节目。

If you want to know more about OLPC history, here are some links to get you started:

• From The Verge: OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong
• From New York Times: Taking the Pulse of Technology at Davos
• From Gizmodo: OLPC Origins: US and Taiwan’s Hardware Lovechild
• From Berkeley School of Information: Morgan Ames’ The Charisma Machine: A Deep Dive into One Laptop per Child

如果你想了解更多关于 OLPC 的历史，以下是一些入门链接：

• 来自 The Verge：OLPC 的 100 美元笔记本电脑本想改变世界——但后来一切都搞砸了
• 来自《纽约时报》：在达沃斯把脉科技
• 来自 Gizmodo：OLPC 的起源：美国与台湾的硬件“爱情结晶”
• 来自伯克利信息学院：Morgan Ames 的《魅力机器：对“每个孩子一台笔记本电脑”的深度剖析》