Comment on In 2005, OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world — then it all went wrong
vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Wrote a paper for one of my finals in college on the efficacy of these. Havent thought of the project for probably 15+ years.
It really was a fantastic idea, always hoped it would catch on but alas, the Chromebook took over in education spaces thanks to subsidies from Google for the data collection.
UniversalMonk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yep. I do wish they would revisit the whole “water-resistant, rubber/plastic thought as a tonka truck, drop resistant, hand crank to charge up” ideas though!