I love this idea. The laptop itself has a wonderful-sounding operating system that relies on intuition, and gives us a completely different metaphor for saving your work - far removed from filing cabinets. It's based on a blog-style system which automatically stores everything, each day, and allows you to tag each document for multi-layered searching. Why didn't Windows / OSX think of that?
http://www.laptop.org/laptop/interface/index.shtml
I particularly like long term effect of a scheme like this. Empowering children to learn for themselves, through any medium, can only be a good thing. When women in 3rd world countries get a proper education they are more likely to have less children, and to have them later in life - vital to help stabilise world population. Added to that is the prospect of many more budding entrepreneurs starting up new economies. That will eventually allow countries to drag themselves out of perpetual debt and aid.
Technology like this must be embraced and encouraged.
