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We need to prepare our kids for a 21st Century economy, and we're not doing it with our schools.

Who knows what technology will emerge in the next five years, let alone 20. Yet the education we provide our children now is supposed to last for decades. We cannot train them for jobs that do not even exist yet, but we can provide them with the minds and tools they'll need to adapt to our ever-changing set of circumstances.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

What I like to say is that we're trying to develop a new generation of technologies that are worthy of the next generation of kids.

Kids automatically teach each other how to use technology, but they're not going to teach each other about the history of democracy, or the importance of taking their voices into the public sphere to create social change.

So many times, these kids know more about the technology than their parents. And so many times, we're putting kids in very adult situations and expecting them to behave like they're 40 years old. Well, that's just not going to happen.

You want to close the income inequality gap in part? Give us better educated kids out of high school. Give us kids that can challenge and succeed in the challenge with technology. You give us those kinds of kids, and watch the needle move.

I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.