A Step Too Far?

After reading The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It, I couldn't help but think of One Laptop Per Child Project. As much as I want this project to be successful and perhaps one of the most innovative projects I've ever read about, I have my doubts. I've been a dancer for the majority of my life and I started teaching classes at my studio to the younger students. Learning dance is progressive. You need to learn the basic skills and movements before you can move on to more advance steps and routines. I feel as though the One Laptop Per Child project is like putting a beginner in an advanced class. Just like a dancer needs to build up skills, strengths, and techniques, countries need to have a progression. With the OLPC project students might feel contempt for their governments because they can provide them with laptops but not clean water. I feel like the project has great objectives and I almost hope that my thoughts concerning it are wrong, but they are skipping a step. I do believe that providing people with information can only assist in development but I don't know if this is the right way. Technology should be helping Third World countries to better standards of living and education to advance them. And perhaps this is just the way to do it. But anyone could go into an advance dance class and learn something, whether it would be productive or worth it in the end is a different story. Without the foundations, a country, where technology is just thrust upon them, might collapse.