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====Recoverability====

====Recoverability====

Recoverability is fundamental to encouraging exploration.  With creative exploration among OLPC's main goals, it therefore becomes an issue of high importance on the laptops.  When a child knows they have a fallback plan — a way back to the current state of things — they will much more frequently go beyond their comfortable boundaries and experiment with new tools and new creative means of expression.

Recoverability is fundamental to encouraging exploration.  With creative exploration among OLPC's main goals, it therefore becomes an issue of high importance on the laptops.  When a child knows they have a fallback plan—a way back to the current state of things—they will much more frequently go beyond their comfortable boundaries and experiment with new tools and new creative means of expression.

The [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/The_Journal|journal]] provides a partial notion of recoverability, since its auto-journaling amounts to maintaining an automatic incremental backup. The ability for a child to choose to "keep" anything they're working on in its current state furthers this idea.

The [[OLPC Human Interface Guidelines/The Laptop Experience/The_Journal|journal]] provides a partial notion of recoverability, since its auto-journaling amounts to maintaining an automatic incremental backup. The ability for a child to choose to "keep" anything they're working on in its current state furthers this idea.