Papert, by contrast, was seventy-six years old and retired when OLPC was first announced in 2005, though he did do some early interviews for the project.4 This participation was cut short on December 7, 2007—around the time that OLPC’s first laptops were coming off Quanta’s assembly lines—when Papert was hit by an auto-rickshaw in Vietnam and suffered a brain injury from which he never fully recovered.
