'60 Minutes': OLPC empowers children Video
'60 Minutes': OLPC empowers children Video Transcript
>> Who fixes this thing?
>> Ninety-five percent of the maintenance will be done by the children themselves -- the older children, but the children themselves. We've designed it so it opens up easily. You can pull out the parts that we think are gonna break. Replace them and so that most of the maintenance happens locally in the village.
>> You're asking a lot.
>> We're asking I think a very realistic amount. Children are extremely good that if you open up this laptop, you will find inside it spare screws because kids, one of the things they do all the time when they take apart a thing is they lose a screw.
>> You expect them to take it apart.
>> We almost wanna require them to take it apart.
>> Oh my god.
>> You know how it's usually says, you know warranty is invalid if you open this laptop. We'd like to put the opposite. We have had kids take them apart, put them back together. We really do...
>> You've shown that.
>> Depend on the kids doing a lot of the maintenance. ^M00:01:00
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