Nimish Kenia, owner of India’s Happy Planet, believes that technology is overkill – all that kids need to enjoy play is space.
IT seems as though fun for modern children boils down to having the best gadget. There are many who yearn for a simpler time and fret for today’s kiddies not being able to tap into their imaginations in the same way grown people today had to do in order to enjoy themselves as youngsters. Much of this is now outsourced to devices and there is an argument that this may not be in the best interest of children’s mental development.
This may be nonsense - the writer Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) said: “I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: One: Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Two: Anything that’s invented between when you’re 15 and 35 is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Three: Anything invented after you’re 35 is against the natural order of things.”
