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Computers and Kids

NPR

Published April 26, 2000 at 12:00 AM EDT

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Commentator Ralph Schoenstein says the wave of computerized toys aimed at children this summer will give them acute digital delirium. Active children, says Schoenstein, will be replaced by interactive ones. Toys will feature computerized voices. And kids three-years and older will be able to send and receive e-mail thanks to hand-held comunications devices marketed to them.