It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.

Preschool kids learn best when exploring, but kids in school learn best when they do things, interacting with a master. Unfortunately, our schools don't do much of either. Also, kids do need to learn how to deal with technology, and online education and otherwise using electronic devices as learning tools facilitates that.

We don't wife our husbands and we don't child our parents.

The youngest children have a great capacity for empathy and altruism. There's a recent study that shows even 14-month-olds will climb across a bunch of cushions and go across a room to give you a pen if you drop one.

One of the most distinctive evolutionary features of human beings is our unusually long, protected childhood.

Texts and e-mails travel no faster than phone calls and telegrams, and their content isn't necessarily richer or poorer.

On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.