What's there not to like about a philosophy of open source software and software accessibility for all? How realistic is it for most of the children in the world to benefit from this educational opportunity?
Web technology is essentially the new frontier and it's creating new pathways of human cooperation and collaboration. New frontiers are generally tainted by exploitative explorers and greedy prospectors that ruin it for everyone else. Mr. Bonk writes of this new technology age like it's going to equalize the masses to make education accessible for all. Maybe I'm jaded but when children still need clean water and nourishing food and basic medicine and that's still not possible in this remarkable age what good will open source software do for them? And in order to take advantage of any educational benefit children still need the basics of reading and writing. It's an amazing thing to think of that "caring and generative spirit" that it's possible to participate in via the web. It is a new way of teaching and accessing all the information that's being dispersed out there.
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