One-to-One Computing: Is this the Best Option for Learners?

Here is  link to a point of view recently published by the IBSG education team on which comment and critique are most welcome. cisco-point-of-view-on-one-to-one-computing.pdf 

It seems to me that computing policies are too often made without reference to a sound model for education trasnformation that will really prepare learners for life and work in an increasingly global society. There are many commentators who talk about the fact that learners are hyper-social animals who want their formal education to embrace their world of connectivity and social networking. They talk about the need for changes to the curriculum, the way it is taught, the way it is assessed, the spaces in which students learn. Seymour Papert started the debate in 1993 with his book The Children's Machine and many others like Marc Prensky have taken up the baton. 15 years later little has really changed. Schools my be more liberal, more group work happens in places and the tasks students undertake are more interesting and varied, and there are pockets of excellence, but to all intents and purposes whole systems have changed little.  Maybe they can't change?  Maybe the political will and public perceptions about what schooling is and should be are too strong? Charles Handy commented that "education is prone to a fifty-year time lag, as those who manage it have to prepare young people for experiences two generations removed from the world that they grew up in".  Do we have to wait for two generations then before education catches up with the other transformational changes already happening in the world?