NZ's educational computer of the 1980s, Poly-1, a multi-disciplinary collaboration of Polytech and school teachers, killed by emerging neoliberal politics and business shenanigans.
Writer uses this sad episode to highlight the similarly narrow-sighted and ideological orientation of the present government to funding innovation.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542199/remembering-the-poly-1-what-nz-s-forgotten-home-grown-school-computer-can-teach-us-about-state-led-innovation
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