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What children need is a Go-Kart, not a 12-Wheeled Truck

By thescian on July 24, 2007.

What children need is a go-kart (OLPC) they can play with, not a 12-wheeled Truck (Classmate PC) that can crush them while scratching a teacher's back. While OLPC focusses on fun and appropriate user interfaces for children, Classmate PC seems to pride itself on Teacher control, parental control, piss control and poo control. (What the fuck. There's more important things at hand, dammit. Where did you go for a learning? Bootcamp for Straightjackets? And, what the hell do children need M$ Office or OpenOffice for? Please don't tell me you'll teach them to make Office Presentations).

Business delivers, yes, but only when the consumers are adults who know their choices. If Classmate PC is serious, it has a long way to go. An article in The Hindu.

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