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So much of education when a child is young is made up of non-academic cognitive skills. How do you shape and react to a child's human interactions - and the ass

So much of education when a child is young is made up of non-academic cognitive skills. How do you shape and react to a child's human interactions - and the associated cognitive skills - via any kind of media or device? It's hard enough for trained human beings...

schoen 9y ago
In The Diamond Age, it was very advanced AI that included software specifically aimed at social interactions -- plus a kind of trust fund that paid for hiring "racters" (character actors) in certain circumstances.
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- QuercusMax 9y ago
  I always though "racters" was short for "interactors", but it could be either one...
  - schoen 9y ago
    Oh, I think that might be right! It's been a little while. :-)
  - rtkwe 9y ago
    I think it's a bit of both the 'shows'/programs are called "'ractives" clearly for interactives, from there we can get ractors from interactors or just a perversion of actors in ractives.
- germinalphrase 9y ago
  I haven't read the book. It monitor interactions with other people or just the device?
  - retbull 9y ago
    From what I remember (couple of years since I read it) it can keep track of other people if they are near by but mostly the child would talk to the book like a friend and explain what was happening.