Uruguay has made the first official purchase of laptops from the $100 laptop project. Though, the laptops currently cost nearly $200, Uruguay has made a commitment to purchase one for every child in the country in the next three years. This ambitious plan comes from a country that is not nearly as economically impoverished as some of the international states that this project hopes to benefit in the future. When one considers an initiative such as this, it does raise questions about how soon alternative machines, which are just beginning to be released even in suburban Chicagoland, how long it will be until inexpensive laptops have become as common as the textbook. When they do, what does that mean for student learning in a world in which 24 out of every 25 students that have Internet access have some type of web presence like a MySpace or Facebook page?