{
  "id": 10214492,
  "title": "Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/27/why-olpcs-100-laptop-never-stood-a-chance",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-27T12:25:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/podcast/1000517/why-olpcs-100-laptop-never-stood-a-chance"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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, […]",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}