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| Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? |
| Laptops Galore |
| for them to stock the machine, employ someone to tell you about it, and |
| fix it if it goes wrong in the first year. Value for money improvements |
| have all focused on faster processors, more memory, sharper displays |
| and larger hard drives, not lower prices. These improvements are useful if |
| you want to shoot aliens, but overkill if you only want to surf the Internet |
| and learn the '3 Rs. So the 'One Laptop per Child' project has developed |
| a device for $100. |
| Negroponte is often asked how he deals with the maintenance and |
| repair issues. His answer, |
| "There aren't any." The computers are treasured |
| possessions and rarely broken or lost. Children become empowered by |
| the machines and can access knowledge and information far beyond the |
| wildest dreams of their parents' |
| generation. Stories abound of children |
| checking the spot prices for wheat or coffee on the Chicago Stock |
| Exchange, and advising their parents on the price to accept for their |
| crop. Negroponte estimates there are currently 500,000 children in South |
| America teaching their parents to read! |
| It's interesting to speculate whether children learn spontaneously or |
| are somehow 'programmed' by the adult members of society. In both the |
| 'Hole in the Wall' experiment and the 'One Laptop per Child' program |
| the children could simply be learning from adults and older children, but |
| there is a novel way to eliminate this influence. Negroponte and Mitra |
| have teamed up to run an experiment to see how children learn for |
| themselves. They are planning to air-drop laptops into remote villages |
| in the Andes. In this scenario, the children can't possibly learn from the |
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