[wsfii-discuss] olpc presentation

Wed Jan 4 14:47:02 UTC 2006

On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 05:20:13PM +0100, miluz wrote:
> Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:17:09PM +0100, miluz wrote:
> >> Karel Kulhavy a écrit :
> >>
> >>> Kids don't think like economists to plan secured future. They are social
> >>> animals (homo sapiens). 
> >> All children in africa dreamed about school.
> > 
> > Question is if the content of their dream is realistic. To be realistic
> > they would have to dream about boredom, bullying, lots of wasted time,
> > and a bit of education.
> Even they ignore what school means - you can't imagine how fast and how
> far informations are flowing in the world - they know what a pencil and
> a paper are (really fabulous drawings anyway. We are only trying to make
> the same today).
> 
> Children are living in a world of dreams, do you remember?
> Do you really think that they dream about prostitution, drugs, violence,
> scare, hungry, cold,...? That's all our "developped" countries have to
> give them for instance. I'm ashamed, sometime afraid, of what they are
> thinking of us.
> > 
> >>
> >> Joke for joke:
> >> In "Darwing Nightmare", do you think that the prostitute questionned has
> >> a single chance one day to learn computer sciences as she would like to?
> > 
> > And do they have realistic expectations for computer science? Don't they
> > think that computer scientist is just a well-paid secretary?
> When you will see the film - I hope for you - you will see her eyes when
> she says that. Far away from money, power, all things that she knows
> perfectly... only freedom.

But they dream about freedom only when they are poor. As soon as you
give a human money or power, he usually gets corrupted.

> 
> Don't forget that contempt is the only one feeling entirely shared.

Can you prove this?

CL<