The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child (Infrastructures)
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A fascinating examination of technological utopianism and its complicated consequences.
The Charisma Machine delivers an unflinching, rich, and original study of the One Laptop per Child program. This clear-eyed critique shows the allure of technology as a silver bullet to social inequality and what happens when elites, policymakers, and unchecked techno-utopianism run amok. This book is destined to become required reading for those who want to understand why we must stop turning to tech―and technologists―as saviors.
―Mary L. Gray, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research; Affiliate Faculty, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University; coauthor of Ghost Work: How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass
