As the offspring of one of those low-income families I reject your argument. Low-income families are incredibly resourceful. I also went to schools where the majority of students were low-income and the schoolboard still managed to install and network computers. Some students used them, most did not.<p>Just saying there should be more access to computers is pretty useless because with no desire to use one it's just an expensive paperweight (facebook terminal). Trust me, if those low-income students wanted a computer they could get one. We have 20 years of computer spare computer parts. There are enough computers produced to give to every person on the planet.<p>The bigger problem was how to use them. This was one of the goals of the OLPC program before it got caught in a proxy war with netbooks.