"Did you ever know the childhood conundrum of working for a penny a day for a month, but doubling your salary each day? If you started this wonderful payscheme on New Year's Day, you would be earning more than $10 million per day on the last day of January ... When an effect is exponential, those last three days mean a lot. We are approaching those last three days in the spread of computing and digital communications." - Nicholas Negroponte, MIT

Even if you are resistant to this kind of techno-utopian discourse it is difficult not to forsee that children growing up online in parts of the world are creating a new generation of online economic, political and cultural forms. Professor Sonia Livingstone at LSE recently completed a thorough report in the UK and a recent article from Science News in the US make really interesting reading.