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Archive for May, 2008

goodbye learning, hello workforce training

by on May 18, 2008 at 4:15 pm · Filed under cyberenviro

Some sad news regarding the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project:

Microsoft has joined forces with the developers of the “$100 laptop” to make Windows available on the machines.
According to Wired, Microsoft has had their sights on emerging markets in developing countries for a while now and have viewed low-cost children’s laptops as ideal vehicles for […]

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we are the ones we’ve been waiting for…

by on May 4, 2008 at 6:00 pm · Filed under cyberenviro

From the conclusion of Chopra & Dexter’s (2007, p173) Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software:

Jacques Ellul imagined an iron cage constructed of technology (Ellul 1967), but never the possibility that the cage could be unlocked by its prisoners. We began with a historical note on hacking: the significance of hacking should […]

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