Intel and Microsoft are making sure that 1 billion poor children in the world will permanently be excluded from cheap PC access.
MIT's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, the brainchild of Professor Nicholas Negroponte, has built a revolutionary laptop for $100 that has wi-fi, email, word processing, and so on - a full featured Fedora Linux based laptop, with an 8 hour battery life that can be recharged by hand crank.
Unfortunately, it will NEVER see the light of day because Intel and Microsoft are combining to dump an obsolete x86 based laptop, with a mere 2 hour battery life, in these developing countries. The Classmate PC costs $400 to build but will be sold for $200 to kill the the OLPC computer.
Making sure that all children, no matter how poor, have access to the resources of the Internet, should be a campaign issue for all Democratic Party candidates.