Originally Posted by d-null

A friend of mine is just a little over the age of the first generation really comfortable with computers (he is 50) and his son is 13 and they have no computer, and the kid is really bright, yet they have no computer and he is of the old school thought that books and study are what are important, and that the internet is full of alot of bad shit.

He is right about some of that, but I am of the thought that being exposed to the realities of the world is a good thing and wouldn't really hurt anything.

Thinking of myself, I wish the internet had been around huge when I was a youngster, so now that I see this friend completely keeping his son away from the net and computing it seems like a real shame to me.

I wonder how it will turn out? I know if I was raising a kid they would be all over learning computing science and doing all kinds of research online, so it is weird to see him raising his kid from a completely opposite perspective.