OLPC Update

[lordshipmayhem]

There's a report here about how the One Laptop Per Child has changed things in Peru.

Quite devastating news - for Microsoft. ("Oh, dearie me, Linux will never take off. It's too hard to use!")

I like this quote:

As there are few roads in and around Arahuay, the children don’t communicate much outside of school — with anyone. The teachers started independently pointing out to Mr. Navarro that this was changing once the laptops arrived: kids started talking to each other outside of school hours over the mesh, and working together more while in school. They started talking a lot more with each other in person, and conquered their previously paralyzing fear of strangers.

There's lots more. Maybe when Birmingham, Alabama, gets theirs, they'll have similar happy results.