But the real reason is simpler still. Children and computers were made for each other. They seem to enjoy a special relationship, an instant connection that is both mystical and mystifying to the average technophobic adult. Even very young kids are unafraid of computers, for the same reason, I suspect, that they are unafraid of dinosaurs. Logic dictates that a toddler should run screaming in terror from the jaws of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, or at least a scale model thereof.
Kids are crazy about dinosaurs.
Kids are crazy about computers. They've never had to listen to a scratched vinyl record, watch a home movie on a Super 8 projector, or imagine a world without cellphones and satellite television. They're at home and at ease in a world of incredible machines. One day, no doubt, they'll be telling their children how tough life was in the days of the Pentium 166. For now, put them in front of a computer, and they're flying.