Without seeming too short, I think a point that various pundits have said
regarding the OLPC is that it has made the possibility of the creation of a
cheap commodity computer possible. I actually find this exciting as an artist
who uses computation, as I think it might open a lot of opportunities on
institutional scales.
For the past few months, I have had a manifesto on durable computing on the
back burner - probably as good a time as any to finish and post it.