The Problems with One Laptop Per Child
Benjamin Cohen,
The World's Fair,
Jan 06, 2009
The main problems, according to Benjamin Cohen, stem from the cultural bias that informed the project from the outset. "The project assumes equal global cultural values & regional attributes. It also assumes common introduction, maintenance, educational (as in learning styles and habits), and image values everywhere in the world. Furthermore, it lives in a historical vacuum assuming that there is no history..." Maybe, but it will take more than this sort of argument to convince me that the commercial and political interference with the project were rooted mostly in cultural difference, and better alternatives for children than (as suggested by the cartoon) than hoops, footballs, hand laundry and carrying things on one's head.
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