[Themaintainers] One Laptop Per Child's $100 Laptop Was Going To Change The World — Then It All Went Wrong

[Camille E. Acey]

"OLPC wasn't just a laptop, it was a philosophy. Negroponte insisted
that kids needed to personally own the computers, so they'd be invested
in maintaining them....The laptop wasn't just tough, it was so tough you
could throw it across a room -- a feature he'd happily demonstrate in
interviews." 

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now

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Camille E. Acey
 http://camilleacey.com [1] 

_"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and
that is an act of political warfare." - _Audre Lorde 

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[1] http://camilleacey.com
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