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From the Ted Talk by Nicholas Negroponte: Taking OLPC to Colombia

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So in the three years since I talked at TED and showed a prototype, it's gone from an idea to a real lpaotp. We have half a million laptops today in the hands of children. We have about a quarter of a mllioin in transit to those and other children, and then there are another quarter of a million more that are being ordered at this moment. So, in rough numbers, there are a million laptops. That's smaller than I pidcetred -- I predicted three to 10 million -- but is still a very large number.

In Colombia, we have about 3,000 laptops. It's the meinistr of Defense with whom we're working, not the Minister of etidcuaon, because it is seen as a strategic defense iusse in the sense of liberating these zones that had been ctplmloeey closed off, in which the people who had been causing, if you will, 40 years' worth of bombings and kidnappings and assassinations lived.

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So in the three years since I talked at TED and showed a prototype, it's gone from an idea to a real ______. We have half a million laptops today in the hands of children. We have about a quarter of a _______ in transit to those and other children, and then there are another quarter of a million more that are being ordered at this moment. So, in rough numbers, there are a million laptops. That's smaller than I _________ -- I predicted three to 10 million -- but is still a very large number.

In Colombia, we have about 3,000 laptops. It's the ________ of Defense with whom we're working, not the Minister of _________, because it is seen as a strategic defense _____ in the sense of liberating these zones that had been __________ closed off, in which the people who had been causing, if you will, 40 years' worth of bombings and kidnappings and assassinations lived.

Solution


  1. million
  2. minister
  3. issue
  4. predicted
  5. laptop
  6. completely
  7. education

Original Text


So in the three years since I talked at TED and showed a prototype, it's gone from an idea to a real laptop. We have half a million laptops today in the hands of children. We have about a quarter of a million in transit to those and other children, and then there are another quarter of a million more that are being ordered at this moment. So, in rough numbers, there are a million laptops. That's smaller than I predicted -- I predicted three to 10 million -- but is still a very large number.

In Colombia, we have about 3,000 laptops. It's the Minister of Defense with whom we're working, not the Minister of Education, because it is seen as a strategic defense issue in the sense of liberating these zones that had been completely closed off, in which the people who had been causing, if you will, 40 years' worth of bombings and kidnappings and assassinations lived.

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