Children are at the epicenter of the information revolution, ground zero of the digital world. They helped build it, they understand it as well as, or better than, anyone else. Not only is this new machinery making the young more sophisticated, altering their ideas of what culture and literacy are, it is transforming them -- connecting them to one another, providing them with a new sense of political self. Children in the digital page are neither unseen nor unheard. In fact, they see and hear more than children ever have. They occupy a new kind of cultural space....After centuries of regulation, sometimes benign, sometimes not, kids are moving out from under our pious control, finding one another via the great hive that is the Net. As digital communications flash through the most heavily fortified borders and ricochet around the world independent of government and censors, children can for the first time reach past the suffocating boundaries of social convention, past their elders' rigid notions of what is good for them.