You cannot solve social problems by buying everybody more stuff! This is good for the sellers of stuff but not much help to the children. Revolutions in health and education which are driven by construction of new buildings and the ourchase of new equipment but without additional medical or teaching staff are nothing more than a handout to the corporate sector forcibly funded by taxpayers and at the expense of the poorest and most needy in the community. This is the part of society who needs a human hand not a digital device? What about fostering the reading books and the virtue of learning per se rather than waxing on about the wonders of the digital age.

If you really believe in this strategy then why not teach kids the virtue of communication by buying them all a mobile phone!.

There is nothing that a seven year old cannot learn given access to books either via the school library or the local library.

Computers are just another smoke screen for more corporate largesse.

I’m no dinosaur but I there is something human about sitting down with a good book - kindles notwithstanding.

By the way Australia is the slowest of the seven SE Asian communities I recently surveyed in terms of adoption of new technology. We are still sceptical of the latest blinking light unlike many of our northern neighours and our mesmerized politicians.