Complaining is easy, but how do we fix it? Alan Kay has some ideas: <a href="http://vpri.org/html/work/tlpiese.htm" rel="nofollow">http://vpri.org/html/work/tlpiese.htm</a><p>In essence, he believes the power of computers is as a medium for experimentation. If you make it easy for kids to simulate models from axioms, they'll be able to think better. One might call that "programming", but it's really quite a bit more than what people do now.