“The mentality from which the OLPC springs is the same mentality which in past centuries created the missionary programs—that we, the west, know what’s good for the rest of the world. The technology of choice then was the printing press, so we sent missionaries armed with stacks of bibles. These days we have computers, so we send out modern missionaries (of our western lifestyle, including consumerism, global warming, and credit default swaps) armed with computers.