A foundational reflection by IER Chairman David Loader OAM. Loader looks back on the 1990 introduction of Australia’s first 1:1 school laptop program at Methodist Ladies’ College, Melbourne, and the change management lessons that emerged from it. He describes the opposition the program faced, the technical and pedagogical risks it carried, and the conditions that allowed it to succeed: a shared vision grounded in theory, a strong team, integration rather than addition, and the willingness to hold firm in the face of doubters. The piece is a candid record of how a genuinely disruptive reform was made to work inside a school, and a reminder that reform of this kind is always a question of leadership as much as of evidence.