Funnily, enough, right at the time you posted this, someone on LinkedIn was talking about a startup they're helping to get low-cost computers to a lot of globally disadvantaged populations. And this is right up that alley. I always admired the One Laptop Per Child program, even if I thought Negroponte was kind of a douche, and I think in a lot of places that are ... well, not the first-world places I'm familiar with, access to this kind of technology - access alone - would be world-changing.

I always think of the idea that one of the ways you can be more successful is to unlock more peoples' potential. That we became more powerful as a species when women could participate. That we will become more powerful when people currently in poverty or third-world circumstances have access to the kind of technological power that we take for granted every day. Instead of having a bunch of Stanford startup wannabes talking about the "Uber for dogs", you'll have people using this stuff to solve actual, real, pressing problems that can change their lives for the better.

I remember the day my dad brought home the C64. I remember it *vividly*. We plugged in a Jupiter Lander cartridge, and that single moment probably did more to set me on the path I ended up on today than anything else before or since.