I slept like a baby last night. Wet the bed three times.

Inferential science (quantum physics and the like) may advance in paradigm shifts. Progress in the empirical sciences simply accelerates and decelerates.

What a fantastic idea.

I respectfully disagree. As one of those dewey-eyed forty-somethings (there is certainly something in what you say about that demographic) I think the allure of the RP is precisely that it is totally stripped down. This is the computer that an orphan in a backstreet of Hyderabad might acquire from a dumpster - or from a nun handing out a satchel of them to a sea of frantic, outstretched filthy paws - and take home to pore over by the guttering flame of a gaslight (allow me some poetic licence).......and slowly begin to make sense of.......and realise with mounting excitement is in fact an entire computer, not merely a fragment of one. If jaundiced, well-fed, perpetually whining and - let's face it - lazy teachers in clean, brightly lit, centrally heated classrooms in western countries can't be bothered to utilise the RP as a medium for learning - which may (shock horror) require that they first take the trouble to learn something about it themselves - then more shame them. In any case, they will be quickly swept aside and disregarded by the eager and engaged young people who are its true intended users. As to your point regarding the availability of 'educational material' - it is of the very essence and ethos of the RP that no-one is telling you what to do with it, or spoonfeeding its users with glossy, ready-made applications. The RP IS educational material. The RP is a pure learning tool, not a teaching tool. It stands as a rebuke - and a corrective - to the pervasive dogma of modern education, which places knowledge above learning. I would not be at all surprised if it is viewed with suspicion bordering on hostility by our current crop of educationists. It - and the things it represents - threatens their relevance unless they reform. The RP is in the vanguard of - indeed exemplifies - a sea-change that is just beginning in British education, spurred on by Michael Gove's creation of state-funded Free Schools and his overhaul of the National Curriculum, which has been vandalised and subverted by left-wing idealogues over the past thirty or forty years. The RP will facilitate a return to traditinal imperatives of education such as the development of critical thinking faculties; the mastery of logic; the encouragement of deep focus and concentration; experimentation......qualitative aims that were once the bedrock of British education but were abandoned in the headlong pursuit by politicians and social liberals of ever-improving exam results, and which are now making their inevitable Darwinian come-back. The RP poses a simple but enormous challenge to anyone who picks one up: how hungry are you to master this? I am a-tingle to see what deluge of replies it brings forth from our brightest and most motivated young people. The people behind this device may just be in time to save western civilisation by resurrecting and energising the latent intelligence and creativity of our next generation. The generation currently entrusted with educating them, and which has in so many ways signally failed in that sacred duty, should get with the programme or get out of the way.