I always knew there was a good reason to use old CDs and DVDs as coasters.
It seems like a great twist, but what it is may not be as important as what is done with it. I worry about the way education is involving human contact less and less. Children Learn about social skills by interacting with adults and other children, in a direct manner, the danger being, the internet can be a substitute for, rather that a compliment to social skills in children that have not yet established a firm picture of their own identity, and still developing their personality. No Adults open mind, can compare to the way a child's eyes are open to anything new, real or imagined. Childhood is an experience that sh...

I always knew there was a good reason to use old CDs and DVDs as coasters.
It seems like a great twist, but what it is may not be as important as what is done with it. I worry about the way education is involving human contact less and less. Children Learn about social skills by interacting with adults and other children, in a direct manner, the danger being, the internet can be a substitute for, rather that a compliment to social skills in children that have not yet established a firm picture of their own identity, and still developing their personality. No Adults open mind, can compare to the way a child's eyes are open to anything new, real or imagined. Childhood is an experience that should not be taken away for the sake of a lifestyle that is defined in adult terms. We want children to grow up early, because there is the idea that it is possible, but we cannot sacrifice experience for the sake of the ability to interface with the internet. They cannot put the internet into perspective, until they have learned about the world that it describes. Heaven forbid that they get the idea early that their education is unneeded, because they can draw on information at any time. without having a clue where it fits. We have to establish the basic framework of thinking by example, and in simple terms, before it gets digitized.
We might be well aware of the creators and people behind other websites, but children do not have the ability to see many of the things that seem clear to us, as anything more than an abstract. We can train our thoughts to communicate digitally, but our hardware, our emotions, and our basic reflexes, are both direct, and designed to respond to sensory and essentially tactile input, that cannot yet be piped through a wire. It can be amazing the way Adults can grow with their children if they present ideas in the children's terms, and because they can see the way they their children's growth reflects their own.

pokkets,
I agree with you and I like your way of thinking.

This invention of MS is ambiguous; it can bring interesting improvements on some fields of computing, but it can lead into new type of unhealthy oversimplifications, too.
Moreover personally I like my screen clean, without layers of fatty fingertips!

No meter what type of touch screen we have we still need some device for fast input, especially for typing words and fast entering of repetitive commands. It is more than “nice filing” to have feeling of dynamic, vertically movable keys under our fingers – it is matter of efficiency and energy conserving.

And this is why keyboard is so important and irreplaceable. By my researc...

pokkets,
I agree with you and I like your way of thinking.

This invention of MS is ambiguous; it can bring interesting improvements on some fields of computing, but it can lead into new type of unhealthy oversimplifications, too.
Moreover personally I like my screen clean, without layers of fatty fingertips!

No meter what type of touch screen we have we still need some device for fast input, especially for typing words and fast entering of repetitive commands. It is more than “nice filing” to have feeling of dynamic, vertically movable keys under our fingers – it is matter of efficiency and energy conserving.

And this is why keyboard is so important and irreplaceable. By my research a keyboard is terribly obsolete device in compare of possible (and necessary) development of it. I have my own innovation of modular keyboard with fast changeable set of keys, which are fully customizable - you can use different signs, colors, even shapes of keys for different programs. You can even build different computer-related table games from modules of this keyboard…
I develop the way how to bring out many new, unbelievable creative methods of use of computers…

But for me personally: what is the sense of most of new innovations in the world which is presently on the path of global destruction...?! Imagine a train driver which is aware that his train goes too fast and there is great danger of derailment; but momentarily he is just more interested to talk to his co driver about what his wife will cook him for dinner…

I feel now I must use my energies at first place to try to help the people and organizations which work seriously to avoid global derailment of human race.