There was a story in the Economist about how they left a box full of unopened Android tablets in a little village in Pakistan. When they came back months later, the kids have opened up the box. They’ve all figured out how to boot up the tablets. They’ve hacked them. They’ve gotten past the user administration login. They’ve installed a whole bunch of apps. They’ve got a little economy set up. The older kids are teaching the younger kids. They’re teaching their grandmothers how to run businesses. They’re surfing the web. They’ve taught themselves English. Kids are learning machines. They just need the tools.
Naval Ravikant – Farnam Street Podcast
A similar story appeared in an article in the Fastcompany journal.
The article discusses how a group of Ethiopian children managed to hack the tablets that were donated to them in just five months, despite not being given any instruction on how to use them. The children used the tablets to learn about topics such as hydraulics and electrical engineering, and also managed to bypass the devices’ security measures to access blocked websites and install banned apps. The article highlights the children’s ingenuity and resourcefulness in making the most of the technology available to them.
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