Every technology really needs to be shipped with a special manual - not how to use it but why, when, and for what.
Alan KayTelevision should be the last mass communication medium to be naively designed and put into the world without a surgeon-general's warning.
Alan KayBy the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that they were lying to me because I had already been exposed to other points of view. School is basically about one point of view -- the one the teacher has or the textbooks have. They don't like the idea of having different points of view, so it was a battle. Of course I would pipe up with my five-year-old voice.
Alan Kay