I'm sitting here at home on a Saturday night babysitting my beautiful daughter Laura. I just had a 16 hour-flight from Atlanta to Frankfurt to Helsinki, and for some reason I am still awake.

I also had a chance to review old click (bbcworld.com/click), which is one of the best shows to keep up with the IT industry. One of the key points in one of the episodes was how IT is changing edutcation.

One of the main questions was how young is too young to start introducing a baby or small child to IT. My personal opinion is: the younger the better. It is anyway inevitable that IT will be come more improtant for the next generation, is it has been for us. This kinda fits somewhat with Moore's law, that as processing power becomes cheaper, as well as broadband, more and more traditional services are going to be distributed over the Internet, to a variety of devices. Therefore, I'd say the younger someone starts to learn about IT (and in 2/3 generations other high-tech topics such as nano technology) the better as it will give them an advantage in the rest of their lives.

For example, above a picture of our Laura at 4 months old using Movial's Connect PC client for VoIP, Presence, IM and Video Telephony. Don't think she knew what she was doing, but at least she gets used to a keyboard :-)