Quotable

The age old correspondence of how do people, in this case children, have time to do that? Generally in response to things rich, amazing web apps like Graffiti on Facebook, Wikipedia, etc. Riffing off Clay Shirky’s piece.

Children and Computers from The Media Lab(Stewart Brand, 1988)

“Kids like computers… I think it corresponds to children wanting to control an important part of the world… They can feel the flexibility of the computer and its power. They can find a rich intellectual activity with which to fall in love. It’s through these intellectual love affairs that people acquire a taste for rigor and creativity….. There is a low threshold and no ceiling……. From the very start they are programming the computer rather than being programmed by it.”