I can't help but think that OLPC is also pushing MALE American culture onto kids. The research on the gendered effects of technology do show that women tend often to be relegated to the class of "non expert" when technology is introduced, while men become "experts."
<br><br>I'm not a gee-whiz technophile (tho, it could be argued, a technophile). What I see in these technological artifacts is a culture and value-system that is not questioned in the West, much less it being questioned in a new context.
<br><br>Technology is not inherently dehumanizing or oppressive. But it is subordinate to the political. I fear Fatima is right -- that all sorts of unintended consequences will arise from questions left unasked.<br><br><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 30, 2007 11:17 AM, Fatima Lasay <<a href="mailto:digiteer@ispx.com.ph">digiteer@ispx.com.ph</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Negroponte and co. are pushing dangerous drugs in 'third world countries.'<br><br>Microsoft Windows XP for the '$100 laptop' already nears testing phase and<br>will be pushed to kids in our countries<br>(<a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/71789/Microsoft-Windows-XP-for-the-100-laptop-nears-testing-phase" target="_blank">
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/71789/Microsoft-Windows-XP-for-the-100-laptop-nears-testing-phase</a>).<br><br>And soon our kids will have even broader access to decadent Internet social<br>networks as online video games are integrated in social networking tools
<br>(<a href="http://www.gmanews.tv/story/69824/Online-video-games-meet-social-networking-tools" target="_blank">http://www.gmanews.tv/story/69824/Online-video-games-meet-social-networking-tools</a>)<br><br>Negroponte and co. are making it harder for us our struggle and efforts to
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