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<http://dvice.com/archives/2012/01/one-laptop-per.php> 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
