I watch my 13-year-old son Brendan enter a room with both a computer and a cable-connected TV. Without hesitation, he walks to the PC, sits down and spends the next two hours playing interactive games, downloading music -- legally, I presume -- and visiting some of his favorite Web sites.
After dinner, he returns to the computer while chatting with a friend on the telephone and is back in business, the accompanying conversation going something like, "Hey, dude, check out this site ..."
When he watches TV, he does so impatiently, wandering off during commercials or less interesting scenes and rarely finishing a program. The only time he'll sit still in front …
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