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This (french) article by Isabelle Musnik is an interesting summary of the situation.
Près de 8 [enfants] sur 10 ont une console de jeux, 1 sur 4 possède un portable [...]
Translated "Almost 8 [children] out of 10 have a videogame console, 1 out of 4 owns a laptop [...]". Children live by the screen. Here are my toughts on the subject.
Kids are raised in a world where machines became more intelligent than they are. Machines are superior to them, they are their teachers in some way, they are exemples. More than ours can be, their lives are made of numbers. Very old people sometime won't be able to read. Another generation doesn't have an idea about using a cell phone or tape recorder. The next one almost see computers as esoterism. All those things seem natural, and what may seem even as science fiction right now will be as natural to the numerical generation as reading, surfing the web or using a cell phone is to us. I never bought on eBay or Amazon, I almost never use Myspace or FaceBook, I bought my first cellphone today thinking I'd never have one!
To make it short, this is what the next generation is about: the unfamiliar becomes a need.
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