Originally posted on May 29, 2008 @ 10:55 pm
Here’s a rousing speech on the “One Laptop Per Child” project given at the MIT Media Lab this May. It provides an update on the project — and a really good quote on what one tiny machine can do to change lives.
“We are not delivering computers. We are delivering a time machine. A time machine that is so enormously transformational that everything after that is changed. Changed for ever. Imagine this. A hut in an African village. An old man and an old woman cooking their dinner by firewood . At a small table a young boy about 11 years of age is tapping into a computer looking at the key board in the half light of a flickering kerosene lamp. He has escaped his hut. His mind is elsewhere, connected to the global internet community. He is doing his homework together with 7 other kids in similar huts 1 km away. The huts are connected to the children. The children are the nodes and the village community is brought together by their laptops.”