Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources many of them have computers at home for instance or their friends have them.
I am cursed with computers something always goes wrong.
I have three brothers and they're all into computers. They're all intellects. My mother would pay me a quarter a page to read a book and I couldn't make 50 cents. I just couldn't do it.
If I was designing a web site for elementary school children I might have a much higher percentage of older computers with outdated browsers since keeping up with browser and hardware technology has not traditionally been a strong point of most elementary schools.
After a semester or so my infatuation with computers burnt out as quickly as it had begun.
People are on their computers more than watching TV because you can only watch voyeur TV which is basically what reality shows are for so long.
Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.
It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers radios or anything else that I might damage through curiosity or perhaps something more sinister.
Eventually I believe current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time.
Well the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.