Not that I've studied in-depth Maslow, but here are the basics as far as I know.
You need to have a safe place to eat, drink some clean water, crap, and fornicate. Then, you can have friends and compete with them for the best place to eat, crap and fornicate. As you ascend the hierarchy, you can decorate your place, eat too much, have great medical care if you can't crap and send the consequences of your fornications to fancy colleges.
I must have missed the part about the laptop.
So, MIT is giving thousands of Thai children laptops with built in wireless. Some of these rural children don't have decent running water; are they supposed to watch the clean water on the internet? virtual food? virtual college scholarship funds and medical care?
Is maslow's hierarchy becoming taller or fatter? Or is it like the children's board game, Chutes and Ladders; if you roll the lucky dice, you can skip the in-between steps and go straight to the top. And what does that do to a child psychologically if you skip the basics but have ubiquitous access to the internet?
