tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35428618.post6315239262646452951..comments2024-01-20T00:59:08.689+00:00Comments on Brave New World: OLPC: Needed for the UK?Martyn Danielshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02134633193540004531noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35428618.post-72091607302432556522010-12-29T23:43:08.619+00:002010-12-29T23:43:08.619+00:00British officials may find they have stumbled onto...British officials may find they have stumbled onto a problem that can't be solved by handing out OLPCs like candy. G. K. Chesterton summarized it well when it pointed out that when Rome conquered Greece, it became enthralled with Greek art, culture and philosophy. As one nineteenth-century poet put it, "captive Greece took Rome captive."<br /><br />But Chesterton went on to point out that the Ottoman empire responded to its conquest of Greece by learning nothing from the Greeks. Rome, he wrote, sat on Greece like a sponge, the Ottoman Turks like a stone.<br /><br />It's easy to suspect that the computerless and Internetless children found in this study are disproportionately from the same corner of the world that was once Ottoman. It's not poverty that has them behaving like stones. It's a culture that responds to outside influences like a stone. And for the parents of girls, it's a culture that's hostile to even the most benign parts of the Internet.Mike Perryhttp://www.InklingBooks.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35428618.post-27091427436998215062010-12-29T15:20:37.452+00:002010-12-29T15:20:37.452+00:00This is an interesting point. Might I republish i...This is an interesting point. Might I republish it as a Guest Post on OLPC News?Wayan @ OLPC Newshttp://olpcnews.comnoreply@blogger.com