As Whitney said: The Children are our future, teach them well and let them lead the way

I drove to Phoenix this weekend and watched the assigned videos with my best friend's 10-year-old.

The knowledge these youngsters possess has always amazed me as every thing I knew growing up might have been advanced for my age but ideas, thoughts or experiences adults already possessed.

But not today's children. They are immersed in an easily accessible technology that their parents may have only dabbled in. Much different than the new things of the past.

So as he watched these videos I could see some lights go on (perhaps) - a revelation that his generation is learning things that his parents went to college for.

So just to explain the video a bit:

Shot on a sony handycam, with all style debt to Mike Wesch.
Unedited - Vikram and I talked about the scenes beforehand so we could just string together one take to the next. Whenever he's not in the movie, Vikram insisted on holding the camera. Film time was still about 2 hours.

The machine after the Legos pirate village, is a Lego robot with a motor connected by telephone-like wires and a flash drive you program on the computer.

Gunsmoke was playing on TV - this was one of the top shows from 1955 to 1975. I don't have the numbers, but as a corollary, 70 percent of TV households were watching "I Love Lucy." Today the number one rated show, CSI gets about 15 percent.