Ethiopian kids hack OLPCs in 5 months with zero instruction


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Here's the video for the speech, starts exactly at 1 hour (1:00:00), 15 minutes long:

http://www.livestream.com/emtech2012/video?clipId=pla_1acd74bb-9f0e-407e-a740-55caeea5d5b5

Something many people fail to understand, children have an exceptional capability for learning that teens and adults don't have. I've known a few infants to start taking at 12-14 months. For those who are too lazy to watch, the tablet had dozens of movies that were subtitled in english. They had educational materials and even programming languages on it.

As for "hacking", they just probably found a way to circumvent the disabled camera. I used to do the same on the computers at school - Just start clicking everything to see what works and what doesn't, find a way to gain access. Windows Explorer disabled? Firefox installed? Type "file:///c:/" into the address bar.

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