Tim Stevens points us the video below, a 1993 news report on “the growing phenomenon of ‘Internet’:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxfhInhkvtM[/youtube]
Wow, I haven’t heard the dial-up modem sound in years. To me, it is so interesting how much things have changed in just 14 years. Perhaps most indicative of progress (if we dare call it that) is the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. The initiative has spent a lot time and resources in an effort to provide children all over the world with an inexpensive but well-designed laptop (called the XO). Those involved hope the laptops will give Third World kids “new opportunities to explore, experiment and express themselves.” In 2007—14 years after the video above originally aired—the way to do give kids a leg up is a laptop. That says a lot about the pervasive influence of technology and the Internet in our world.