> Where it is promptly beaten out of you.

BS. My three kids (15, 12, 9) are encouraged to express their creativity in ways that I was never allowed when I was their age. In fact, I get a little frustrated that their teachers focus so much on creativity and 'thinking outside the box' that they forget about things like spelling and grammar.

> I can say with absolutely certainty that I would not be as capable of a problem solver as I am today if I hadn't been fortunate enough to be introduced to BASIC at the age of 6.

So you lived your childhood twice - once with BASIC and once without?

I don't want to see a rendered image on the navigation system; I just want a 2-D map. It might make for pretty graphics (and marketability), but it's more than I need to navigate.

But I'm an old geography fart just like the author of the article.