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Open Sugar & Microsoft: End of OLPC As We Know It?

Posted on May 16, 2008

However great an idea it might have seemed when it was first conceived, the One Laptop Per Child project has never been something I ve been able to wrap my head around. I ve always felt, despite the backers good intentions, that it was being shoved down the throats of emerging economies with more dire needs, such as food, clean water and schools. I was dismissed as a naysayer by many, mostly for not grokking how computing can revolutionize nations. But I haven t changed my mind. This project comes off like a vanity play for the elite, who perhaps can t grok the meaning of living wit...

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