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Perhaps. I think the core reasons why OLPC failed include: 1) Bad people. By bad, I don't just mean "incompetent." I mean sleazeballs in it for themselves. Th
by blip54321 5y ago
Perhaps.
I think the core reasons why OLPC failed include:
1) Bad people. By bad, I don't just mean "incompetent." I mean sleazeballs in it for themselves. That's not everyone on the project, but folks like Nicholas Negroponte.
2) Bad risk management. OLPC tried to reinvent everything, down to the display technology. If you take a dozen major risks like that, only one has to fail for the project to fail.
I don't think it got far enough to reveal any fundamental reasons why it had to fail. It was a lot of bad execution.
I don't mind repeating similar mistakes if we go further next time.