The One Laptop Per Child Program Was Supposed to Revolutionize the Developing World—Then It…

The One Laptop Per Child Program Was Supposed to Revolutionize the Developing World—Then It Imploded
The engineers behind OLPC ignored the concerns of the very people it was meant to benefit
Hope Reese
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Nov 20, 2019
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Photo by Tayler Smith. Prop Styling by Caroline DornIn 2005, MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte introduced a program he believed would change the world. Called One Laptop per Child (OLPC), the…
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Written by Hope Reese
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