Humanities & Culture - Education (Upcoming blog)

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Feeling dizzy? I sure do. But here's the real culprit who started all this: symbolics.com, the first registered internet domain, registered exactly 25 years ago, in March 15, 1985.

What has dot-com - bubble or no bubble - to do with kids? Obviously, very much. Most parents are concerned about issues such as how much time their kids spend in front of the computer in general, and specifically on the internet; how safe they are while surfing, or how safe their own credit card is.

However, there are other issues that should trouble parents no less. How computer-savvy are our kids? They seem to be more so than ourselves, But do they really know useful things? And do they know how to take advantage of that?

Here's a suggestion to make the hours they spend in front of the computer more productive: teach them something that is actually useful! Instead of just playing, they can make their first steps - while playing! - towards the fascinating - and nowadays, almost necessary - world of entrepreneurship. How so?

In march 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell first presented a working telephone. The first sentence spoken on telephone was: "Mr. Watson, come here; I want to see you", to which Mr. (Thomas) Watson, listening in the adjacent room, responded by coming over. Shall we say, small words (and steps) for two men, a great step for human technology?

However, Bell wasn't the first - or at least, not the only one - to invent a telephone. Elisha Gray had a similar invention at the same time, and both inventors filed for a patent on the very same day - but Bell managed to precede by a few hours.