--"Whatever flights of fantasy they have will be for a future yet to be--or the dragons and monsters of fairytales of a time that never was. " We're already in the beginnings of that future. It's called video games. Number of hours played by average child -- astounding. More enticing than reality. More stimulating than dreaming up stuff yourself. And what happens 10 to 20 years from now, when the average person has access to immersive reality tools currently only affordable by, say, Peter Jackson making Lord Of The Rings. Hard to know whether to be excited, or alarmed... Both, I suppose ;-)