In nine months, a group of children left alone with a computer - in any language - would reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.
I'm encouraging kids to use computers at their own pace to build aspirations.
As parents we're not nearly as computer literate as our children are.
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.
No sooner my kids leave their friends than they start texting them. And it's all in code in a language I totally don't understand.
We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
When the children were little, I'd fly into L.A. for a specific work project, but then I'd leave again, and when I was home, I wouldn't even read a script.
Children want the challenge of difficult tasks - just look how much better they are than their parents on a computer.
We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.
I don't even want to guess at what computer literacy might do to children, except to say that if cyberspace is considered a place, then there are people who are already in it and people who are not in it.