Heather sent along this fascinating interview from 2000, about an experiment in New Dehli. An Indian physicist sets up a Web-enabled PC in the city’s slums, sits back and watches what happens:
They invent their own terminology for what’s going on. For example, they call the pointer of the mouse sui, which is Hindi for needle. More interesting is the hourglass that appears when something is happening. Most Indians have never heard of an hourglass. I asked them, “What does that mean?” They said, “It’s a damru,” which is Hindi for Shiva’s drum. [The God] Shiva holds an hourglass – shaped drum in his hand that you can shake from side to side. So they said the sui became a damru when the “thing” [the computer] was doing something.
I think the physicist in question, Sugata Mitra, has (or rather had) a blog. Or else it’s some other scientist named Sugata Mitra in New Dehli. There’s also a couple of photos of the computer on PBS’s site.
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It always amazes what can happen when one is left with only their imagination to discover and adapt to new stimili. We begin to create which leads to self-discovery and intelligence.