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There Is A Belief That Children Drop Out Of School Because They're Needed By Their Families To Work, Or The Little Girls Are Needed To Take Care Of Younger Siblings. It Turns Out That's Not Really True.

It's Hard To Propose A $100 Laptop For A World Community Of Kids And Then Not Say In The Same Breath That You're Going To Depend On The Community To Make Software For It.

Nature Is Pretty Good At Networks, Self-organizing Systems. By Contrast, Social Systems Are Top-down And Hierarchical, From Which We Draw The Basic Assumption That Organization And Order Can Only Come From Centralism.

The Wild, The Absurd, The Seemingly Crazy: This Kind Of Thinking Is Where New Ideas Come From ... The People Capable Of Such Playful Thought Carry Forward Their Childish Qualities And Childhood Dreams, Applying Them In Areas Where Most Of Us Get Stuck, Victims Of Our Adult Seriousness. Staying A Child Isn't Easy.

Think Of It: The Lowest Common Denominator In Being Digital Is Not Your Operating System, Modem, Or Model Of Computer. It's A Tiny Piece Of Plastic, Designed Decades Ago By Bell Labs' Charles Krumreich, Edwin Hardesty, And Company, Who Thought They Were Making An Inconspicuous Plug For A Few Telephone Handsets. Not In Their Wildest Dreams Was Registered Jack 11 - A Modular Connector More Commonly Known As The Rj-11 - Meant To Be Plugged And Unplugged So Many Times, By So Many People, For So Many Reasons, All Over The World.