But you can choose your employer (unless you are a slave, which doesn't apply here, being [] shipping magnates). It is so simple; so elementary, that most peop

But you can choose your employer (unless you are a slave, which doesn't apply here, being [] shipping magnates). It is so simple; so elementary, that most people don't see it (e.g. think of mass-energy relationship). MIT's primary goals and funding agencies are well known, and so are the little one's scientific achievements, supposedly securing him a place among "the great". Also look @ at the goals of the OLPC, as the whole concept (not as a cheap notebook with little green ears). It is written publicly in B&W: "At its core, our journal concept embodies the idea that the file system records a history of the things a child has done, or, more specifically, the activities in which a child has participated. Its function as the store of the objects created while performing those activities is secondary, although also important. The Journal naturally lends itself to a chronological organization (although it can be tagged, SEARCHED, and sorted by a variety of means). As a record of things a child has done—not just the things a child has saved—the Journal will read much like a portfolio or scrapbook history of the child's interactions with the machine and also with peers. The Journal combines entries explicitly created by the children with those that are IMPLICITLY CREATED through participation in activities. [...] Each machine is a full-time wireless router. Children in the most remote regions of the globe—as well as their teachers and families—will be connected both to one another AND to the Internet." http://laptop.org/en/laptop/interface/principles.shtml http://laptop.org/en/laptop/interface/principles.shtml "It's data that's practically a printout of what's going on in your brain: What you are thinking of buying, who you talk to, what you talk about." --Kevin Bankston, staff attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation go and figure the rest. Guido's colonisation parallel with conversion to Christianity / XP / Whatever is also very apparent: practically all "orders" are from "client states". The ones likely to vote in favour of the MS Office format to be an ISO standard. Advancing (computer?) literacy in MIT's backyard would be a more ambitious goal ;) Or as they say, in soviet Russia, the employer chooses you ;)