Interesting NYT article reprinted by the International Herald Tribune about the way that toy companies are rethinking themselves as consumer electronics companies. The article doesn’t live up to its provocative title, focusing more on the companies and their strategies than on the consequences for kids and the nature of play, but it’s worth reading and thinking about anyway.
How children interact with technology, and how it changes both their relationship to technology, to other people, and to the world around them, is something that all of us should be paying attention to, since it’s one of those “long now” type issues where the consequences won’t be known for at least a decade. I’d love your thoughts.