I’ve been around since Sesame street premiered. It promised a great opportunity to expand literacy for young kids growing up in families where the parents were not educated.

In fact the families that watched Sesame Street were the well educated ones. The literacy levels from the higher income family kids when they reached school was even further ahead of the poorer families than it had been before big bird.

I am fascinated by this stuff because I have thirty year old twins – 1 st generation Sesame streeters and a nine year old son, who probably learned as much from the Wiggles as he did from sesame street.

But all three were spared “So you think you’re a loser” and similar reality programs.

The connected generation coming through, including my 9 year old son Griffin will share in the benefits of the web unequally, but all will benefit.