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How the One Laptop per Child Program Imploded (onezero.medium.com)
6 points by pslattery on Nov 20, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


I noticed the OLPC laptops at Canada Computers in Scarborough Ontario a couple months ago. I'm guessing there are still warehouses with remaining stock around, and I'm definitely surprised about that.


"Of the remaining [kids], they mostly used it to go on the internet. This was not something that the machine was really designed for."

Even in the western world if you hand someone a computer that doesn't have internet access they'll probably just turn it off and go do something else.




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