My kid will, in fact, do it with Ubuntu (and other 2010 predictions)

“I won’t even try to predict how Ed Tech will look in
2020. Ubiquitous WiFi was barely conceivable in 2000; we were just
happy that we finally got to party like it was 1999. I can take a
pretty good stab at the next couple of years though. Let me know
what you think once you’ve read my musings.

“Prediction #1: My kid will do it with Ubuntu

“There he is, kid #4: his t-shirt says it all. By way of
disclosure, I got that t-shirt for free from the good folks at
Canonical. I don’t, however, think he will end up using
Ubuntu because they gave me a free t-shirt. I think he’ll use
Ubuntu because he already does. I also think that Ubuntu use will
continue to spread beyond the kids of the sorts of people to whom
Canonical sends t-shirts. Ubuntu is not just for geeks anymore.

“A teacher saw an Ubuntu sticker on my computer the other day
and asked what I thought of it. He’s a relatively savvy user,
but hardly a geek. However, he told me that he had just installed
Ubuntu on his wife’s computer, much to her chagrin (he had
already switched his own). She didn’t care for Vista (already
installed) and he couldn’t bring himself to pay for an
upgrade to Windows 7, so she got Ubuntu. She was completely
surprised to find out that not only was it free, but she liked
it.”

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