The trick becomes – what content? What set of knowledge do we include? Some subset, different on each laptop? That’s hard from a manufacturing standpoint. But it would be great if we didn’t just have access to wikipedia in its current form, but could actually use the local laptops as independent storage for a subset of articles. Remember, a lot of the laptops are going to be put into the world in bandwith-limited places and they only have a few hundred meg for storage. So using a cooprerative caching mechanism might be interesting. Don’t have a page in your local cache? Ask a laptop around you. Then you go to the interweb to find more content.