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thevanishingpresent: Ethiopian Kids Hack Their OLPC Tablets in 5 Months, With No Help

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By Jamie Condliffe

Give a thousand Ethiopian kids - who have never seen a printed word let alone played around with expensive consumer technology - a tablet, and what happens? They hack it. Obviously.

The amazing One Laptop Per Child scheme has been offering up Motorola Xoom tablets to…

I really doubt that they’ve never seen street signs or are so isolated that they dont know whats happening in the world. That sounds rubbish to me and its likely that someone in the village/community is literate enough in english to have taught one or two of the kids but apart from that this is really cool.
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  Because Africans invented civilization, dummy. Jesus.
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  Obviously! ;-)
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  Goddamn.
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  Okay so. These kids are brilliant - I certainly can’t get my camera to work in Android on my tablet. That point aside,...
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  Not sure why they did the experiment...but if it makes kids, without chances...
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  this is just so fucking moving and inspirational. i’ve spent the last hour looking for related stuff, and finding...
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  I really doubt that they’ve...street signs or are so isolated that they dont know whats...
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