CIMG5383 A child typing on an OLPC / XO laptop
CIMG5383 A child typing on an OLPC / XO laptop at the steampunk party at SXSW 2007. She was certainly an early adopter of OLPC/XO laptops — I didn’t get one until a year later. At the time of SXSW 2007, those laptops were a hot and much hyped novelty.
The “Futures Past” steampunk party was thrown by EFF and several other organizations at the SXSW conference on March 12, 2007 at Scholz Garden in Austin, Texas. I didn’t know many people there, so I went there mostly to see the costumes. Ah, the costumes! Unfortunately, I don’t know the names of any of the people I took pictures of. On the technical side of things, Austin’s own Robot Group had an exhibit there, showing many all sorts of new flashing, singing, wiggling mechanical creatures I haven’t seen since their last exhibit.
March 2007, Austin, Texas
