Playing with the OLPC

Playing with the OLPC

Posted Dec 15, 2006 3:31 UTC (Fri) by ebiederm (subscriber, #35028)
In reply to: Playing with the OLPC by jeff@uclinux.org
Parent article: Playing with the OLPC

So it is equal to the cost of 4 books a year for 12 years. I seem to remember having more text books per year than that. Which is just to say that the OLPC is not as completely bogus on the face of it from a cost perspective as you are implying.

The other thing to consider is that you can't solve just half the problem. You have to fix the structure of society if you want to keep people from starving. Education and communication technology is one of the most powerful steps I know towards empowering people, and empowered people at least have a chance of fixing things.

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