An Indian physicist puts a PC with a high speed internet connection in a wall in the slums and watches what happens.
What
he discovered was that the most avid users of the machine were ghetto
kids aged 6 to 12, most of whom have only the most rudimentary
education and little knowledge of English. Yet within days, the kids
had taught themselves to draw on the computer and to browse the Net.
Some of the other things they learned, Mitra says, astonished him.
Strong evidence in favour of the $100 laptop? I think so!
(via Reddit)
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