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Monthly Archives: May 2008goodbye learning, hello workforce training
Some sad news regarding the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project:
Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the “$100 laptop” to make Windows available on the machines.
According to Wired, Microsoft has had their sights on emerging markets in developing countries for a while now and have viewed low-cost children’s laptops as ideal vehicles for [...]
Posted in commodification, education, informationalism, labour, play, youth Tagged CD, Microsoft, OLPC, quote Leave a comment
we are the ones we’ve been waiting for…
From the conclusion of Chopra & Dexter’s (2007, p173) Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software:
Jacques Ellul imagined an iron cage constructed of technology (Ellul 1967), but never the possibility that the cage could be unlocked by its prisoners. We began with a historical note on hacking: the significance of hacking should [...]
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