I suddenly felt very happy reading Intel's claim that only 5 p.c of the world's 1.3 bn school kids had access to PC or the net. I felt sorry for the 5 pc - a weird feeling since I am working with computers. I would really love to see statistics on how many adult lives have been affected by computers. Maybe overexposure to computers made me feel like this, or maybe I always did feel this way. Or maybe this is brought on by the fact that after a very long time I finished a book straight out - reading from 1 am to 7 am in the night, not caring about sleep. Its a weird feeling, nevertheless one that I felt I missed for quite sometime. When I was young, I was one of those children who didnt have access to the PC or the net and I used to read a lot of story books, play a lot outside, have fun with friends and people. For these 5 pc of the children, I fear they would be missing the books, the people and rather get used to ordering pizza on the net and the notion that everything would be available instantly - not always a good thing!! Sometimes imagination and creativity may be curtailed by readily available google search on the web. Creativity fills voids in your understanding and is often an useful tool for driving innovation. Less information is a good thing and the journey of slower search and the delay in acquiring knowledge is a process in itself. Which is better - we would never find out, since we would adapt to the current situation; but being a generation that knew books existed and imagination of a land far far away was not gathered from a google image search, we are going to miss the drive to imagine more as time goes by.