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Thailand has pulled out of the One Laptop per Child program. Apparently the new military government thinks it's a bit silly.

Not that I expect a lot, but the immediate response from the Ars forum is, shall we say, bleak:

Right. It's not that the critics have valid objections (and don't just take my word for it, this is also a nice post from a WorldChanging contributor). It's that we're just ignorant Americans. That's a nice bit of rhetorical judo for a program that basically amounts to rich technocrats selling hardware to the lesser-developed countries without any pedagogical or infrastructural support. But then, the line that "we don't need a plan now, we're fast-paced venture capitalist geniuses with a secret plan" has long been an excuse of the program.