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There’s a book, The Charisma Machine (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537445/the-charisma-machine/), that examines outcomes from multiple OLPC initiatives and covers many of the failings.


Some of the more recent lookbacks with anecdotes and takes:

The Charisma Machine: The life, death, and legacy of One Laptop per Child (2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29971982

OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16849374


A youtube talk about the book for the lazy\busy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCeaQUPaze4




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