Looking for the Mouse

I just read an interesting essay on the history of leisure time and how the Web is affecting it.

The author points out that we're rapidly changing from losers who passively watch Gilligan's Island to losers who actively play World of Warcraft: “Grown men sitting in their basement pretending to be elves.”

But he also examines more productive things we're now doing, like the approximately 100 million hours spent so far constructing Wikipedia, and speculates on where things may be heading: “Four year olds, the people who are soaking most deeply in the current environment, who won't have to go through the trauma that I have to go through of trying to unlearn a childhood spent watching Gilligan's Island, they just assume that media includes consuming, producing and sharing.”