This may sound like going back to the past, but it is so only partually. Subboards could be connected to each other, using connectors, so that there is little space lost between them.

Several chips on there subboards could be added to a modular cluster that could be used for research in all different kind of sciences.

In the event that millions of those laptops would be distributed, it would allow for enough time, to put a network in place that allows reuse of parts, to build clusters that could be used for research purposes, or that could be connected using grid software.

This would not be the initial phase of the laptop project however, but it should be thought about from the start. In that way most parts of the laptop could be reused, and have a longer live then they would normally be.

The novel display technology is also interesting for a different reason. It could be used to build/create cheap terminals wich could be used in a thin-client network or together with the cd-rom server as mentioned below, and in a different post [Old ideas that need still work]

If the idea of the lininspire cd-rom server technology would be feasible they would allow for a cheaper kind of intranet. If a cd-rom server would be adapted in such a way that it would have subboards (a drawing might explain in a clearer way what i am trying to explain and will be added if possible to a other post or on request) then it would be allowed to use for much longer.

This $100 laptop should be a starter, and as such a good start, and the above issues of upgrades, waste disposal, and the way its build should be thought about and worked out at the start.

So that it becomes a stepping stone on which can be built, not a end point to fast.