Mark uses the Lego Mindstorms toy to illustrate this domain. He refers to Mitch Resnick, the inventor, and his links to Papert and Piaget.

 

Mindstorms is a building tool with embedded sensors, motors and a computer control system. This gives children the ability to construct intelligent machines. Mark then mentions nanotechnology as a logical extension of the Lego-brick building model, but at atomic level.

"A generation raised on … Lego bricks that could have active components, that could think and react … was going to intuitively understand what was going on with nanotechnology"

Next clip | Previous clip