Our children are for the most part pretty incredible beings within their own right. They can make us proud and they can break our hearts. They are growing up in a world that is changing faster than ever before; faster than it has even changed within my lifetime so far. I still remember turning thirteen, getting ready to celebrate my bar mitzvah and yet watching Man step foot on the Moon for the very first time. As much as that was an incredible point in human history it will pale when compared to what our youngest children will experience in their lifetimes.

For this generation things like mobile computing platforms, semantic Web and social media with what comes after it is becoming commonplace. While for the longest time when kids and computers were mentioned in the same breath visions of pimply faced little cretins huddled in their parents’ basement were all that we saw. Regardless of the fact that many of us with tinges of gray in our hair were the real power behind what our children now almost consider their birthright, that was the imagery projected upon