# The Children’s Machine

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- Book: [The Children’s Machine](https://www.bookquiver.com/seymour-papert/the-childrens-machine) ([The Children’s Machine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/seymour-papert/the-childrens-machine.md))
- Authors: [Seymour Papert](https://www.bookquiver.com/seymour-papert)
- Publisher: Basic Books
- ISBN: 978-04-6501-063-9
- Published: 1994-04-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In his classsic book, Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and powerful Ideas , Seymour Papert set out a vision of how computers could change school. In The Children's Machine he now looks back over a decade during which American schools acquired more than three million computers and assesses progress and resistance to progress.