I spent a lot of time playing the maze game that came with Encarta, and like the author when I think of the "I Have a Dream" speech, I usually think about the version I watched on Encarta (as well as JFKs speech about going to the moon).<p>Just this morning at breakfast, my daughter said to me "Did you know about goliath birdeating spiders?" I told her that I did not, but I looked it up on wikipedia. I started telling them how wikipedia is a digital version of encyclopedias, which many of us used to have in our home, came in ~20 book sets and had articles about almost everything you could want to know about. My younger daughter's response to the idea of having a 20 book set about all sorts of different topics was "Why would you do that?" Not only are things like Encarta and Encyclopedias foreign to kids growing up, the logic on why one would need something like that is lost on them. It's not necessarily a bad thing (wikipedia is awesome in its own right), but it is interesting.