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Re:Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru by aserr on Sunday December 07, 2025 @06:02PM (#46186255)
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.
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Re:Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru by ChrisArchitect on Sunday December 07, 2025 @06:17PM (#46186397)
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

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Re:Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru by bigthymer on Sunday December 07, 2025 @08:49PM (#46187402)
A youtube talk about the book for the lazy\busy

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

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