[Book Review]: The Charisma Machine by Morgan G.Ames
January 20, 2025•656 words
The Charisma Machine is more than a decade-long work, deeply field-researched and studied ethnographic work by Morgan G. Ames, on the life, death, and legacy of the One Laptop Per Child Project (OLPC). The OLPC is a "non-profit" project that promised a "revolution" in education by providing a cheap 100-dollar-laptop to each kid and integrating it to their everyday schooling in order "for children to learn with, and from, computers". The creators of the project believed that by giving children th...
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