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Optimism From OLPC

To say the least, I’ve been ambivalent about the One Laptop Per Child project. And I was not alone in my OLPC discomfort.

But now, I feel optimistic. Not about the OLPC project. But because that project is enabling something important.

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Author enkerliPosted on January 12, 2008December 19, 2008Categories A, Anth, Anthropology, applied anthropology, cellphones, cultural awareness, economics, Education, education systems, Ethnography, groupthink, naïve, naïveté, Nation-States, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, optimismTags Adam Smith, alter-globalization, altermondialists, cellphone penetration, cellphones, cult of personality, economic development, engineering, Engineers Without Borders, enthusiasm, EPFL, fair-trade, free trade, GDP-poor, Geekcorps, globalization, hegemony, human factors, humanitarianism, Invisible Hand, iPhone, John Perry Barlow, liberal democracy, liberalism, messianic complex, MIT Media Lab, naïveté, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, Nicholas Negroponte, Peter Schwartz, post-industrial societies, privatization, representative democracy, Sherman Dorn, technology, troubleshooting approach, United States, utopia, well-intentioned, well-meaning, XO3 Comments on Optimism From OLPC
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