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Article Excerpt
It didn't start out looking like an alien invasion when I got a computer more than a quarter century ago. Not an early adopter--I'd maxed out technologically with the four-slice toaster--I had that first one foisted upon me by a cyber-visionary friend. Like the Trojan horse, it was a "present" that arrived in a wooden case. If the Trojan horse had used ten-inch floppy discs and a CP/M operating system, the analogy would be perfect, since this insidious intruder annihilated the culture it invaded.
Slogging through our most recent endless Texas summer, I tried to recall this lost predigital world for Teen Boy. I spoke of a time when vacations were so boring that incinerating ants with a magnifying glass and watching Dukes of Hazzard reruns were considered entertainment. One might have even, oh, I don't know, read a book. I offered my theory that, thanks to the computer, and to unending levels and ever-newer releases of Counter-Strike and WarCraff, his generation might well be the first never to experience life's greatest...
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