Food for thought (Score 1)

I am not a Dvorak basher. He is definitely opinionated, but I kind of admire that. What concerns me about this whole situation is that no one is really walking a mile in those kids shoes. The kids these laptops are aimed at are in many cases living in squalor with little or no food. When they wake up in the morning and their hunger makes their belly hurt, I am sure that they would choose a bowl of rice over a toy without hesitation. Kids from all cultures have little sense of "value". If you don't believe me, ask your seven year old how much money they think you should earn in a year. Will OLPC save the world? Nope. Will it change the balance of power in the 21st century? I doubt it. Will at least one child who gets one actually use it to learn and eventually find a way to benefit all of mankind? I think so. In the information age, we sometimes forget what life was like before the internet. Our children don't know anything about life without computers. The OLPC initiative attempts to put children from poor countries on a more equal footing with kids that are way better off. I can't find a bad thing to say about this program, other than it is taking to long to implement. Potential corporate sponsors may even want to consider that their outsourcing of tech support jobs may very well employ some of these kids in the future. Good for Dvorak for pointing out something that we already know, but probably don't like to really think about. His position is as right as anyones.