Yeah - I think things are generally a lot better than they were when it comes to a precocious kid's ability to access interesting information. The issue now is

Yeah - I think things are generally a lot better than they were when it comes to a precocious kid's ability to access interesting information. The issue now isn't scarcity so much as abundance, avoiding apps designed to be addicting and distracting, and being able to sort through the massive amount of information to find the high value stuff that's really great. If you're a kid growing up without parents to help pull stuff out of the 'unknown unknowns' then it's hard to dig through things to find the good stuff. I supposed I'm a little more optimistic - I think a lot of kids are interested, it's just a firehose (and there's a lot of easily accessible junk food designed by highly paid devs to make it as 'engaging' as possible).