The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative recently ran an experiment. They delivered boxes of Motorola Xoom Android tablets to two Ethiopian villages, enough that each kid could have one device. The catch: Nobody stayed behind to provide training, and the box was not even opened. And the villagers did not speak English or read any language at all.
The kids turned the devices on, only to discover the cameras didn’t work. So what did they do? Within five months, they hacked the O.S. and made the cameras work. Awesome.
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