I Am Knowledgeable Enough About The World

By Nature, I Am Not An Optimist, Though I Try To Act As If I Am.

In Every Part Of The World With Which I Am Familiar, Young People Are Completely Immersed In The Digital World - So Much So, That It Is Inconceivable To Them That They Can, For Long, Be Separated From Their Devices. Indeed, Many Of Us Who Are Not Young, Who Are 'digital Immigrants' Rather Than 'digital Natives,' Are Also Wedded To, If Not Dependent On, Our Digital Devices.

I Align Myself With Almost All Researchers In Assuming That Anything We Do Is A Composite Of Whatever Genetic Limitations Were Given To Us By Our Parents And Whatever Kinds Of Environmental Opportunities Are Available.

Twenty-five Years Ago, The Notion Was You Could Create A General Problem-solver Software That Could Solve Problems In Many Different Domains. That Just Turned Out To Be Totally Wrong.

Beauty Reveals Itself In The Course Of An Experience With An Object.