We research and develop ideas, produce books and magazines, edit and enhance movies. We crunch numbers, dial numbers, and manipulate numbers for every conceivable application. We play games. We communicate through our computers over thousands of miles. We gather information from universities, libraries, research centers and governments all over the world with our computers.
Computers are a vital part of our everyday life.
And yet, it seems, we've ignored this fact when it comes to our children and the schools they attend. The schools are a technology desert. There are no telephone lines in the classrooms. Not enough outlets to support a network of computers. No cabling to connect our children with the super-information highway.