Ethiopian Kids Hack Their OLPC Tablets in 5 Months, With No Help
By Jamie Condliffe
Give a thousand Ethiopian kids - who have never seen a printed word let alone played around with expensive consumer technology - a tablet, and what happens? They hack it. Obviously.
this is just so fucking moving and inspirational. i’ve spent the last hour looking for related stuff, and finding something just made me want to find more.
- here is an ethiopian (in english) news video about the same stuff (sans the hacking)
- here is nicholas negroponte’s 2008 ted speech on one laptop per child
- and here you can hear him tell the whole story @ this year’s emtech conference, from around 1:00:00 to 1:20:00
- and finally an article @ technology review on one tablet per child.
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Because Africans invented civilization, dummy. Jesus.
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Obviously! ;-)
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Okay so. These kids are brilliant - I certainly can’t get my camera to work in Android on my tablet. That point aside,...
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Not sure why they did the experiment...but if it makes kids, without chances...
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this is just so fucking moving and inspirational. i’ve spent the last hour looking for related stuff, and finding...
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