The Charisma Machine: The life, death, and legacy of One Laptop per Child
I think a lot of &quot;they should have just given them a laptop&quot; commentators forget just how expensive these were at the time. Making a special BOM to make a &quot;cheap&quot; laptop would have walked into precisely the same problems OLPC hit.<p>Post-hoc reasoning.<p>I don&#x27;t like some of the MIT post-hoc reasoning too. &quot;we like this keyboard BECAUSE its hard for adults to use&quot; is crap.