> I just dont understand how did we end up here The push to get children familiar with appliance computers as opposed to general purpose computers goes at leas

> I just dont understand how did we end up here The push to get children familiar with appliance computers as opposed to general purpose computers goes at least as far back as the 1980s with Apple. So how we ended up here is basically nearly half a century of lobbying from computer manufacturers to promote proprietary computation appliances that children have limited or no control over. > we studied the law and it turned out that there was a law already on the books... that said that if you donated a piece of scientific instrumentation or computer to a university for educational and research purposes you can take an extra tax deduction.... We thought that if we could apply that law, enhance it a little bit to extend it down to K through 8 and remove the research requirements so it was just educational, then we could give a hundred thousand computers away, one to each school in America. Steve Jobs, quoted in https://hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/kids-cant-wait-apple https://hackeducation.com/2015/02/25/kids-cant-wait-apple