Sir Nicholas Stern estimates that the average per capita carbon footprint will need to be reduced to 2 tonnes per person (with an expected population of 9 billion people in 2050) for us to limit the adverse impacts of climate change.
The One Laptop Per Child non-profit association, first announced by Nicholas Negroponte , founder and chairman of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media lab at the World Economic Forum last January, claims the machine will "be able to do almost everything except store huge amounts of data".
Nicholas Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association, and formerly co-founder and director of the MIT Media Lab.