New age ... bad for children

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'boon and bane '
Game speeds, hand eye coordination ...   violent game scenarios.... they can pick up games and yet have problem using  the Powerpoint ?
Typing is too passe...  .. I suppose the invention to do away with that is up next !
Where's the time to experience peace, calm..dinner conversation... when the goal of each waking moment is to fill with some action.

Unless it's 'moving', nothing else seems to HOLD their attention for long... everything else seems slow and booori..ng especially reading..

What's happened to their imagination, where is it buried, how do we bring it back out to work again.
Unlike the ancient floppy disk, the imagination has no limitations so why are children so limited in using theirs. 

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