[LINK] One Laptop per Child Doesn't Change the World

[Adam Todd]

At 09:58 AM 10/12/2007, Scott Howard wrote:
>On 12/10/07, Bernard Robertson-Dunn <brd at iimetro.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > One Laptop per Child Doesn't Change the World
> > ARTICLE DATE: 12.04.07
> > By John C. Dvorak
> > PC World
> > http://www.pcmag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=220845,00.asp
> >
> > So what to do? Let's give these kids these little green computers.
>
>
>OLPC isn't about giving children a laptop.  It's about giving them the one
>thing that can allow them to break the cycle of poverty that so many of
>these countries are in - an education!
>
>And Education _does_ change the world.

Ohhh great, so in 20 years time when the kids who have been given an 
education via a laptop to lust for the purchase of My Little Ponies 
and Paddlepops are grown up is someone going to give them an airfare 
to [Insert First World Country Name] and a Job?

Or does it just stop at them discovering they are really in poverty 
but now have a means by which they can find out how much?