I hope this doesn't lead to a world where the poor must remain attached their tablets and be on "call" 24 hours day to cater to the whims of the upper classes so they simply can "earn" enough income to subsist...
Harry On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> That goes hand-in-hand with this amazing story: >> >> http://dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php >> >> "What happens if you give a thousand Motorola Zoom tablet PCs to Ethiopian >> kids who have never even seen a printed word? Within five months, they'll >> start teaching themselves English while circumventing the security on your >> OS to customize settings and activate disabled hardware. Whoa." > > > QUOTING the article: > > "We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no > human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four > minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd > never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were > using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC > songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked > Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the > camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android." > > That is simply wonderful. That's the funniest and most heartwarming thing I > have read in a long time. There is hope, after all. > > Chris Tinsley would have predicted this. > > - Jed >
