Berners-Lee Says Internet Will Make Kids Creative

ErikPeterson submitted a story where Tim Berners-Lee (if you need explanation, you're reading the wrong site) is interviewed about how on-line life will make our children more creative than us. He makes various points and predictions about what the internet will do.

Comments

You had your chance. :-P

[Vorondil28]

from the i-want-a-hyphen-in-my-name-too dept.

Sorry Taco, you had your chance.

Rob Malda-Fent kinda has a ring to it.^_~

Re:I disagree.

[CyricZ]

I don't need to go anywhere else. I can look right here on Slashdot. Not only do the various readers of Slashdot (myself included) have spelling and grammar mistakes, the "editors" do as well.

GameFAQs makes Slashdot look like Oxford, if you can imagine that.

Are you saying that rap music (full of "foul" language and poor grammar) is not creative? Even though I don't particularly care for that genre, I still respect the artists' creativity.

I'm actually disappointed that you would attempt to forbid a child to read a forum because you disagree with the spelling and grammar content. I don't feel particularly moved to commit spelling and grammar mistakes because others do.

Is rap music creative? Yes, I'd say so. But I would hardly call it an intellectual type of creativity. It's far more primal. More about expressing dissent against (or praise for, in some cases) life in the slums, ghettos and trailer parks of America.

Children are impressionable. I would not want my child picking up awful textual communication skills from his or her peers. You, on the other hand, are an adult (or so I would gather). I would expect that you are not as impressionable as a child who is just learning to write.

You're right, monitored posting at such forums is acceptable. My grandson posts at GameFAQs quite frequently. But he always does it with supervision, and hence has learned to use correct spelling and grammar (unlike most of the other fools there). He often ridicules his peers there for their inability to grasp such basic skills. Indeed, it's the unattended, unmonitored posting there that will truly destroy a child's mind.

Re:I disagree.

[CyricZ]

Indeed, I'm correct.