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Comment two week learning curve: must be way too hard (Score 2, Insightful) 261

the article stated:
"In Luquia, Justo Miguel ComÃn, a fifth-grader who is the youngest of seven children of subsistence farmers, was delighted to get his laptop in late April. "I like the math games, and I love the camera," he said two weeks later.
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Yet when BusinessWeek asked her son detailed questions, it became clear he didn't fully understand the computer's capabilities"

--wow... a fifth grader can't completely understand the full capabilities of a new piece of technology in TWO WEEKS. Maybe they should ask him again in two months, or six months.

Heck, my great-grandmother spent her whole life thinking that soap operas on TV were as real as news reports.

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