At the same time that we are awed by child prodigies, we must not forget that the child is only a prodigy IN CERTAIN AREAS, BUT NOT ALL the areas. A nine-year-old certainly can do certain things with astonishing facility, but we also need to remember that many a prodigy never reached his/her full potential later on in life simply because a massively imbalanced regimen of studies has left his/her character flawed and immature. Look at this person's full life, not what this person can do, and ESPECIALLY NOT what this person can do *for us* (i.e. throw quantum mechanics at him/her, etc.).
Sincerely,
Vexler
Gee, I'd like to have a mouse as durable as this. Maybe someday they would be all that's left of this world in case we have a nuclear war. That, plus cockroaches...
Regarding the etoys.com cyberwar: CNN probably figured that the technical aspect is way too much for the average user to handle, BUT a story on denial-of-service as a cyberwarfare weapon is an interesting piece of news fit to print. Ode to the Age of Sound Bites!!!
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At the same time that we are awed by child prodigies, we must not forget that the child is only a prodigy IN CERTAIN AREAS, BUT NOT ALL the areas. A nine-year-old certainly can do certain things with astonishing facility, but we also need to remember that many a prodigy never reached his/her full potential later on in life simply because a massively imbalanced regimen of studies has left his/her character flawed and immature. Look at this person's full life, not what this person can do, and ESPECIALLY NOT what this person can do *for us* (i.e. throw quantum mechanics at him/her, etc.). Sincerely, Vexler
Gee, I'd like to have a mouse as durable as this. Maybe someday they would be all that's left of this world in case we have a nuclear war. That, plus cockroaches...
Regarding the etoys.com cyberwar: CNN probably figured that the technical aspect is way too much for the average user to handle, BUT a story on denial-of-service as a cyberwarfare weapon is an interesting piece of news fit to print. Ode to the Age of Sound Bites!!!