Me? Why? :(

It depends on what society you have.

Where I live, we have free health care so we hate it when people smoke or eat fast-food all week long. Their health problems are paid by everyone so we, the society, create laws to make sure it doesn't happen too often.

I agree that that school was a bit too drastic though. I would have written the name of the student on the chalkboard and that would have been the end of it.

Bah, I went to space camp a couple of times and we didn't do sports. It was all about learning and experimenting. Quite fun, but no sports. Is that such a bad thing?

However, if I had kids, I wouldn't send them to a gaming camp. I'd want them to be challenged and learn some cool skills about science, nature, arts, or whatever they like. That video game camp could be good if they try to create a game or a mod on their own though.

To quote Wikipedia:

The metric/imperial mix-up that destroyed the craft was caused by a human error in the software development, back on Earth. The thrusters on the spacecraft, which were intended to control its rate of rotation, were controlled by a computer that underestimated the effect of the thrusters by a factor of 4.45. This is the ratio between a pound force–the standard unit of force in the imperial system–and a newton, the standard unit in the metric system. The software was working in pounds force, while the spacecraft expected figures in newtons; 1 pound force equals approximately 4.45 newtons.

The software had been adapted from use on the earlier Mars Climate Orbiter, and was not adequately tested before launch. The navigation data provided by this software was also not cross-checked while in flight. The Mars Climate Orbiter thus drifted off course during its voyage and entered a much lower orbit than planned, and was destroyed by atmospheric friction.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

Thanks to technology, we are linked together. We are able to communicate with each others wherever we are. We have access to an incredible amount of knowledge through the Internet and this can now be done through cellphones, blackberries, etc.

Now, imagine a generation continuously linked to this hive-mind. Imagine disconnecting them one by one. Imagine how powerless and lost they would become.