ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) (03/08/88)
From recent correspondence: >About your attention span problems with TV info versus >print media - my serious suggestion would be to get >rid of the TV. A little observation here. My kids (7 and 11 years) are both quite creative, and they enjoy making things out of household odds and ends. (Yes, I know that's not prodigious -- that isn't my point.) I've noticed how often visitors who see them making something will *immediately* ask `Do you have a television?', the implication being that we don't have one and that if we did the kids wouldn't have got into the way of making amusements for themselves. I'm not preaching -- really -- yes, I do have television, though I find radio better for most things. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From Ken Johnson, AI Applications Institute, The University, EDINBURGH Phone 031-225 4464 ext 212 Email k.johnson@ed.ac.uk