By the year 2000, most Americans will be online one way or another.

The project is part of a broader program by One Laptop Per Child a non-profit organisation started by Negroponte and other Media Lab faculty to extend Internet access in developing countries. From 1993 to 1998 he contributed a monthly column to the magazine in which he reiterated a basic theme: "Move bits not atoms. He earned a Master's degree in architecture from MIT in 1966.