Morgan G. Ames’s book, <a href="http://morganya.org/charisma.html">The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child</a> (MIT Press, 2019), chronicles the history and effects of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development. Ames is on the faculty of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

Morgan G. Ames

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"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

Morgan G. Ames’s book, <a href="http://morganya.org/charisma.html">The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child</a> (MIT Press, 2019), chronicles the history and effects of the One Laptop per Child project and explains why — despite its failures — the same utopian visions that inspired OLPC still motivate other projects trying to use technology to “disrupt” education and development. Ames is on the faculty of the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.