Digital Blue is not cutting-edge, top-of-the-line technology.

We're finding that students are able to meet many state standards, curriculum standards and our school standards with this project.

Every single one of them.

We live during a time in which some shoppers shiver all Thanksgiving night only to trample one another to death in a sunrise race through the electronics store to buy gaming consoles that allow them to create avatars of themselves.

Here though, there are no oppressors. No one's forcing you to do this. You willingly tie yourself to these leashes. And you willingly become utterly socially autistic. You no longer pick up on basic human communication clues. You're at a table with three humans, all of whom are looking at you and trying to talk to you, and you're staring at a screen! Searching for strangers in... Dubai!

It was one thing to use computers as a tool, quite another to let them do your thinking for you.