Brent Eades wrote:
>
> On 9 Nov 98, Brett Lorenzen wrote:
>
> > If people think TV was bad at warping
> > kids' brains because it was on all day when parents were gone, this is
> > going to be a real treat for them. TV's don't tell you they love you
> > *chuckle*
>
> Er... do you have kids, Brett? :)
>
> TV sure does tell kids that, especially if your poor affection-deprived
> young 'uns have the misfortune to latch on to the Diabolical Purple Lizard,
> aka "Barney".
*chuckle* Okay, I forgot about the evil dinosaur.
How about this, then? :
TV's can't be programmed to subliminally purr "Buy Cheesy Poofs" from 2
am to 4 am whenever held next to a warm, snoring body. Yet.
On TV, at least, a parent has the opportunity to know what is coming out
of it. They *can* participate if they want to.
With these things, there won't be a single parent with knowledge of the
full array of things that it can say. It's *meant* to make new
sentences. It's also meant to be carried around. Not like the parents
ever will know these things unless they carry one around themselves.
My money is bet on the odds that they turn into very handy portable
advertising tools. Once Disney gets ahold of them your wallet is
empty(er), Brent ;)
At least "Chucky" put people out of their misery in a hurry . . . as a
child's toy, I see these as more of a long, slow torture issue.
Get your kids Mindstorms and get them interested in making computers do
things, not letting computers do things for them :)
B
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