I'm 21 now. My family had a computer since I was about 7. We went online when I was about 10. We had a couple of computers since hten. I got my first computer, an over-powered laptop paid for by my granddad's will, when I was 17. I got a Mac mini when I was 18 and an MSI Wind at 21.

So while it's kinda weird to think of little kids having their own computers, all the power to them. If I had been tinkering away earlier, chances are I'd be way better at web design and development now. These kids won't stay obsessed with Disney forever and soon they'll be the new breed of geeks.

The only real problem – beyond getting your head around kids learning to read on screens instead of books and playing games not on the little kiddy TV controller console, but online instead – is the parental controls.

I like the idea of a whitelist, because a blacklist for the internet, as it expands so much daily, is totally pointless for hoping to block out all porn/violence/etc. Then they can just hook them up to the kids' TV channel websites, a couple of educational sites and any more specific sites their kid will want to visit. I'm surprised there aren't far more parental controls with a whitelist. The only problem is if these whitelisted sites still allow external links to work, because some external links are useful and others are just ads which could lead onto sites with ads that lead to other sites (with the cycle continuing) that kids shouldn't be on.

Good on Disney, though. Let's just hope the branding doesn't go over the top and it's still just a nice way to get kids into geekery.

I’m 21 now. My family had a computer since I was about 7. We went online when I was about 10. We had a couple of computers since hten. I got my first computer, an over-powered laptop paid for by my granddad’s will, when I was 17. I got a Mac mini when I was 18 and an MSI Wind at 21.

So while it’s kinda weird to think of little kids having their own computers, all the power to them. If I had been tinkering away earlier, chances are I’d be way better at web design and development now. These kids won’t stay obsessed with Disney forever and soon they’ll be the new breed of geeks.

The only real problem – beyond getting your head around kids learning to read on screens instead of books and playing games not on the little kiddy TV controller console, but online instead – is the parental controls.

I like the idea of a whitelist, because a blacklist for the internet, as it expands so much daily, is totally pointless for hoping to block out all porn/violence/etc. Then they can just hook them up to the kids’ TV channel websites, a couple of educational sites and any more specific sites their kid will want to visit. I’m surprised there aren’t far more parental controls with a whitelist. The only problem is if these whitelisted sites still allow external links to work, because some external links are useful and others are just ads which could lead onto sites with ads that lead to other sites (with the cycle continuing) that kids shouldn’t be on.

Good on Disney, though. Let’s just hope the branding doesn’t go over the top and it’s still just a nice way to get kids into geekery.