Comment many comments missing the point (Score 1) 740
Being on slashdot I should not be surprised.
But it seems to me that many comment (and of course the article) are missing the point.
It is not only about teaching some IT skills to un educated children.
If OLPC succeeds (and even if I'm not optimistic, I certainly hope it will), those children will have access to renewable information, school manuals (which are very hard to get to them now, exepensive, seldomly up to date, and fragile) and a communication mean.
The implications are quite revolutionary, and even threatening for many governements.
OLPC is not about teaching programming, it is about setting up an information infrastructure.
The potential of progress if this succeeds is so enormous that I think it may be the greatest threat for the project.
But it seems to me that many comment (and of course the article) are missing the point.
It is not only about teaching some IT skills to un educated children.
If OLPC succeeds (and even if I'm not optimistic, I certainly hope it will), those children will have access to renewable information, school manuals (which are very hard to get to them now, exepensive, seldomly up to date, and fragile) and a communication mean.
The implications are quite revolutionary, and even threatening for many governements.
OLPC is not about teaching programming, it is about setting up an information infrastructure.
The potential of progress if this succeeds is so enormous that I think it may be the greatest threat for the project.
