“We don’t tell these feel-good stories, these fairy tales,” Mr. Navarro responded to my unspoken skepticism. “It’s just what happened. It’s just how it is.”
— "Astounded in Arahuay", a progress report on the OLPC laptop project in Peru by Ivan Krstić
Have you seen Ivan’s resignation in protest blog post? It’s deeply sad that his feelings about being part of OLPC were forced to change so radically (for him, for the org, and for the people it’s trying to serve), especially in the face of what’s clearly an amazing potential.
http://radian.org/notebook/maintaining-clarity
Yep. A bad portent indeed.