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Kids Review the OLPC
A. N. Onymous sends us to OLPCNews for an account of kids' reactions to the OLPC XO, and comments: "My first impression is, it's just like when you give a kid a box of Lego." The video of a 10-year-old and his younger sister replacing a mobo is pretty cool.
This is all well and good, but won't someone PLEASE think of the... oh! Nevermind.
Uhhh... your North American bias is clearly overriding your sense of common sense. In the USA, cell phones are expensive and wired phones are cheap. In Africa, as in Honduras or a dozen dozen other countries, it's far less expensive to own a cell phone than the obligatory house a wired phone must exist in.
Homeless people carry cell phones. That does not make them "rich".
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Guided step by step by some hipster-looking amish geek dude in the background.
Dude. That's me. You insensitive clod.
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one!