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"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android."
The people in charge of the project left a box containing 1,000 Android tablet PCs as a sort of project/experiment. Just like the above quote explains, one child powered it on within four minutes. Within five months, these children hacked Android and were enabling (accidentally) disabled features. That's...something.
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"We left the boxes in the village. Closed. Taped shut. No instruction, no human being. I thought, the kids will play with the boxes! Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, but found the on/off switch. He'd never seen an on/off switch. He powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child per day. Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs [in English] in the village. And within five months, they had hacked Android. Some idiot in our organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera! And they figured out it had a camera, and they hacked Android."
The people in charge of the project left a box containing 1,000 Android tablet PCs as a sort of project/experiment. Just like the above quote explains, one child powered it on within four minutes. Within five months, these children hacked Android and were enabling (accidentally) disabled features. That's...something.
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