Tuesday, September 20, 2005

The pleasures of technology

We're not the most plugged in family the world but we do okay I think. Last night Cullen was doing homework when a friend rang him up using Google Talk. He wanted some input for a paper he was writing about how banning of video games would affect society. Since he was on speaker I said hello to him and then when he asked I gave him some ideas about some effects I thought we could see. (Things like a big black market, spending unnecessary money on enforcement, more violence in kids who don't have a way to let off steam, weaker cognitive skills as we lose the ability to keep them honed through problem solving and hand eye coordination, things like that.)

Then the landline rang and it was another friend who Cullen has been helping with physics homework every night. They got into a conversation about how to determine velocity and the friend who was on Google Talk offered to help out also. It was extremely satisfying to see these bright fellows working together without having to go out at night on a school night. In fact when Cullen finished he went right to bed. No fuss, no muss.

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