You may have heard of the technology genius/humanitarian activist named Nicholas Negroponte for a few reasons. A.) Because he predicted the future of computing 24 years ago, B.) He started the MIT Media Lab, which has since developed some of the greatest innovations in technology in recent history, C.) He has created one of the greatest humanitarian efforts to supply third world countries with laptops for children’s education, or D.) Any of his incredibly visionary novels.

You may or may not however, have heard of his new rival in the space, intel. Intel has decided to create the classmate pc a device that not only uses the same technology that they helped develop for Negroponte’s machine, but sporting a very similar look as well. When I say very similar… I mean Intel’s product designers tried really hard to rip of the far superior Fuse Project design, created by Yves Bahar.

Recently Negroponte was on 60 minutes and told cbs what he thinks about intel and their approach.

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