Are we compelled to walk through the doors technology opens, or is technology a tool we use to build the doors we want to walk through? Do we control technology or does it control us? Does technology change us or reflect us? Or both? The debate over whether technologies emerge from complex cultural dynamics, or define and continuously shape those dynamics has been on-going for nearly a century with no signs of resolution, and for good reason. Transistor-based technologies are ubiquitous within our culture and have integrated themselves so quickly into our lives, it's hard to see them as anything but a force moving according to its own inscrutable designs. It sweeps us along like a digital king tide upending our social conventions and reshaping the rules of our personal relationships while we struggle to stay afloat. If these technologies are so uncontrollable and relentless and leave us powerless to resist their impact, do we really want them in our schools? Shaping the minds