“Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.” —Walt Disney
For a child, today’s play is tomorrow’s work. Whether it’s playing with a toy doctor kit, a tea set, a digital camera and editing software, or inside of a virtual world, the skills they’ll need tomorrow are being honed.
But their skills will only be [...]

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas just ended. One of newest focuses of this huge electronics show is looking at the next generation of digital consumers—kids. According to toy industry data, the fastest, and almost the only, growing segment of the kids’ toy market is for digital toys.
We’ll be looking at some of [...]

This column appeared in HybridMom Magazine this month. Consider it a cautionary tale of a sleep deprived second-lifer.

My name is Hybrid Snoodle. I’m pretty hip-looking with my army chick/punk-er getup: camouflage t-shirt, black fishnet tights, short skirt, day-glo helmet, and one of those shapely 3D bodies. It’s 2 AM and in a few hours I’ll [...]

Today, there are about 1 million engineers worldwide. Researchers predict that we’re going to need at least 2 million engineers over the next 10 years if we’re going to continue to continue along the path to a networked world.
Rather than look upwards and pray, Cisco has been taking matters into its own hands. [...]

Thanks to Renee Orrichio for spotting this YouTube video that eloquently depicts the gap between traditional education and the world of the web. These kids write and read, but they do it with blog posts and text messages. They remember those facts that they actively search out, but not always what the teacher tells them. [...]

September’s the month to plot your back-to-school survival strategy. For parents, the school year requires the management skills of a Fortune 500 CEO, the planning skills of General Patton, and the negotiation skills of King Solomon himself. And that’s just what you need before the year officially gets started. The joys, of course, are well [...]