Parenting in an alien world?

The world we knew as kids (assuming you were born in the 1980's or prior) no longer exists, save perhaps in movies like the Karate Kid or ET.  I love freaking out kids by telling them I existed before the internet!  So what has technology done to a whole generation?  How do we make the best of it if we still have kids at home?  Here's a very interesting article on just that topic.  Personally, we've raised our now six year old with very little technology, basically only an occasional movie or baseball game on TV.  He's struggled a little bit with all the computer based testing (apparently the only thing they do in school!) but otherwise I think he's done very well and even his teacher thinks the benefits far outweigh any negatives.  I figure since my husband's 90+ grandmother figured out how to do email and computers weren't commonplace until I hit junior high and my generation still managed to figure it out, he'll have no problems whatsoever.  The best part is imagination doesn't run on batteries!