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Still waiting for proper 'ractives.

an iPad could do it now, but we don't have the proper capture/reprocessing frameworks in place (outside of research).

I was just thinking how close we must be to "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" (see: "Diamond Age", by Neal Stephenson, referenced by me and seiji here. GREAT book.)

Slow start, insane end, typical Stephenson.

But do we know enough to tell software how to raise a child?

There were two versions of primers. The mass market version had auto-schooling (giant boat of threatening asian girls). The expensive ("for royalty/CEOs") version had a live adult person interacting with the child, but the child didn't know a real person was behind it. The child just thought the book was very good at being instructive. The actor of the expensive primer had no way to communicate with the child except through Primer-Approved stories, but the actor would direct and personalize the stories as necessary for the child's life conditions (i.e. "remote parenting").

Yes, I forgot. Her "other mother" - thank you. Including the cool escape from abusive home section.

What a great book.

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