If John Dewey Were Alive Today, He'd Be a Webhead

By PESHE KURILOFF

When my husband brought home our first Macintosh computer, in 1986, and told our children -- who were then 12, 8, and 5 -- not to touch it until he had read the directions, they naturally ignored him. Long before he found time to go through the instructions, they had the machine out of the box, up and running, with software installed,...