PORN Effect

What's the first thing you do with a brand spankin` new $100 Eco-friendly laptop?

Answer: Start looking at porn during class. At least that's what children in Nigeria are doing with the new technology, according to Reuters.

The Reuters report indicated that corespondents from the the News Agency of Nigerian "had seen pornographic images stored on several of the children's laptops." (Read the full article here.)

The news is sure to outrage the people who donated these cheap laptops, which happen to be folks in the conservative Christian majority country of America. But, to people such as myself who grew up on the Internet it doesn't seem all that far fetched. Allow me to bridge the generational divide...

The sprawl of technological advancements was driven by the desire to look at pornography from the privacy of your home at any time of the day. A computer with an Internet connection provides this with just a few clicks. Yet, most importantly it's all discreetly disguised as a calculator, a telephony service, a post office, a word processor and a database for everything.

It wasn't the only reason to own a computer but it was definitely a selling point. Eventually people realized this technology could improve all aspects of their life and not just the portion that scolds you for trying to look at naked people.

But I cannot take credit for this theory as it belongs to Esquire Contributing Editor Chuck Klosterman, who wrote extensively about this subject in an essay titled "Porn" from the book Sex , Drugs, and Coco Puffs. It actually makes sense that sex would ultimately drive human advancement. When we were all mindless cave people, sex was really the only recreational action not necessary for survival of the individual.

It's unfair for NAN to assume "efforts to promote learning with laptops in a primary school in Abuja have gone awry," --and/or not working. Eventually these children will become inspired to learn about something and when that happens those cheap laptops will serve their purpose.

A remedy to the "problem" could happen in the form of content filters, so students will focus on learning enthralling textbook material. Yet, I have a feeling this will fail and instead motivate the young minds to learn how the computer (and its various processes) works so they can begin watching porn again, which might not be so bad after all.

I mean, learning is learning.