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I know it's a joke, but a bit harsh it says OLPC achieved nothing.
by stuaxo 5y ago
I know it's a joke, but a bit harsh it says OLPC achieved nothing.
- axiosgunnar 5y agoI'm not too familiar with OLPC (perhaps they were indeed a money grab), but I feel there is a difference between "oops..my startup that would have made me rich AF failed" and "oops.. my startup that would have made the internet more accessible for african kids failed"
- BoorishBears 5y agoI'd love to see what about hard to repair e-waste dumped on teachers with minimal training was supposed to lead to making the internet more accessible for kids. https://books.google.com/books?id=v4y5DwAAQBAJ https://books.google.com/books?id=v4y5DwAAQBAJ
- skavi 5y ago"oops.. my startup diverted funds that could have gone to actually effective charities"
- intuitionist 5y agoTo the (small) extent that it was Jeffrey Epstein’s money I think I prefer it being lit on fire to whatever else he might have done with it
- jandrese 5y agoOLPC was far from the least effective charity though. It could have diverted funds from an even worse charity.
- jhbadger 5y agoAlthough Negroponte is an angel investor these days according to Wikipedia, so he did become wealthy somehow. I'm not sure how much OLPC helped that (although leaders of seemingly noble non-profits can do quite well for themselves in general).
- ghaff 5y agoWell, he's from a wealthy family, an early investor in Wired when they were cool among other well-known startups, and a co-founder of the MIT Media Lab. Being an angel investor doesn't necessarily mean billionaire.
- breck 5y agoSpeaking off the cuff, without knowing the insider details, but I would say OLPC helped pave the way for Raspberry Pi; Theranos helped paved the way for a lot of future blood testing companies (and let's hope discourage people from pursuing a secrets and patents strategy), et cetera. Dead trees feed the next generation.
- Trufa 5y agoAs I said elsewhere, it was pretty successfully implemented in Uruguay, where every child received one.