On Apr 10, 2016 9:37 PM, "Dave Crossland" <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com">dave@lab6.com</a>> wrote: > > On 10 April 2016 at 20:35, Adam Holt <<a href="mailto:holt@laptop.org">holt@laptop.org</a>> wrote: >> >> Just imagine if OLPC had not chosen to run off with $40 Millon in community-driven revenue > > I don't understand this. What are you referring to? :) Give1Get1 revenues were approximately $40 Million. A listening organization could have (and would have) taken a portion of that surprisingly clairvoyant learning moment into its soul, divining its community purpise, rather than banking it. Nobody's saying the road less traveled would have been cake (I hope) as many of the same Technocracy First / Human Education Later mistakes were bound to happen, as we can see today in Wikipedia's leadership power vacuum, some of us never learn naturally :) <a href="http://mollywhite.net/wikimedia-timeline/">http://mollywhite.net/wikimedia-timeline/</a> But 8 years later, Tony Anderson is 100% correct: an entirely different road was right there in front of us, if we'd chosen to deliberate together, in a united voice... -- Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org">http://unleashkids.org</a> !