Kids explain the internet for you
The internet isn’t so big, if you’re small. To find out how much children understand about the net and its complexity, researcher Zheng Yan gathered responses from 83 kids.
One five-year-old-boy said “Um, it has two computers on it. It is ten square feet large. It wouldn’t hurt you”.
The children aged between nine and ten appeared to be in a transition phase. They had limited online experience but showed greater awareness of the internet’s uses and dangers. “It’s somewhere for finding stuff” and is made “of a thousand computers,” one nine-year-old explained. But the internet “can give us bad ideas,” a 10-year-old girl warned.
She probably said that right after stumbling onto totse.com. Or perhaps the National Review Online.
(Via the British Psychological Society’s Digest Blog.)
Pieter Baekeland says:
July 21st, 2005 at 4:05 am
One day a famous scientist was looking for a name for a very large number (10 tot the power 100). He asked a child, becaus adults could find a suitable name. “It’s a Gogool” the child said. And so it was.
Only a child had enough imagination to come up with such a name..
Pieter Baekeland says:
July 21st, 2005 at 4:13 am
http://www.editorialjuventud.es/84-261-3362-2.htm
A child and a Gogool : you don’t need to understand the language, when it becomes to big to understand.
Steven Sande says:
July 21st, 2005 at 11:38 pm
Yeah, how are we to make sense, really, of such astounding numbers?
Reminds me that I want to one day see the Eames’ Powers of Ten film.