Thing 16

To be honest Thing 16 kind of scares me. I am a book lover, I love opening a book and feeling the paper and the smell of a book there is nothing like it in the world. With all the new technology will the printed word become obsolete? I have been seriously considering doing some drastic changes at home such as shutting off the Internet, getting rid of satellite TV and going back to the way things were when I was a child. Some people ask me do you do alot on the Internet and my answer is "yes", I send e-mails and chat with friends but, I want my child to be a strong reader and I do not want him to rely on hearing a book read to him at the age of 12 because his reading skills are poor. I feel that computers and Internet are introduced to children at to young of an age. Sorry if I went astray with this blog but Thing 16 really made me stop and think. My thinking was " Is all of this new technology making our children dumber?"