It has always been an unspoken fear—or assumption, even—that the dual-touchscreen followup to the original OLPC, the XO-2 , would never come to pass. But we let the dream live! Until today: the XO-2 is officially scrapped . Almost worse than the news that we’ll never see this folding, hybrid LCD/E ink budget computer in the flesh is how the news was delivered: By Nick Negroponte, in a low-profile interview with Xconomy , as if it everyone already knew: 2.0 (the XO-2) has been replaced by two things: 1) model 1.75, same industrial design but an ARM inside, 2) model 3.0, totally different industrial design, more like a sheet of paper. Read more ...