"50% say they’re more concerned than excited about the increased use of AI in daily life, up from 37% in 2021. 10% are more excited than concerned. 38% say they’re equally excited and concerned."

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2025/09/17/how-americans...

Then people can stop as they get to the latest things that are driven by identity politics when they choose.

That can help a bit.

The US is a vast market. It's played a lot in the US as well. The MLS also not a tiny league. Football is also huge in Mexico.

Hugo Sanchez was truly a legend. Among many.

RRR and PBS in Melbourne are still excellent and seem to still be a fairly big deal if bumper stickers are anything to go by.

As does Goodreads and reviewing, for myself, every book I read.

Logging out of social media on phones is a good idea.

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It does have a real time spell checker. But it doesn't seem to have the squiggly line. The screen blinks at you when you type a word it can't find.

I've just run Prowrite 2 and 3.1.1 via FS-UAE.

So my memory is wrong about that feature have a red squiggly line.

It did have realtime checking. Also Prowrite was WYSIWYG. The realtime checking is neat, but it's actually a bit annoying with the blink. The red squiggly line is a better way to show that there is an unrecognised word.

Thanks for getting me to check.

I'm going to run it and have a look in a bit and get back to you.

It looks like 1st Word on the Atari ST also have a continuous spell checker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Word

From the link for 1st Word :

"Among the many new features was a spell checker with a 40,000 word dictionary, although lacking many American English terms,[11] a mail merge program, footnotes and semi-automated hyphenation.[12] The spell checker included the relatively rare, for the time, option to check on-the-fly. It also added document statistics display, including the number of characters, pages, etc"

Honestly I'd guess it's one of those things that possibly originated at Xerox Parc and then got added to consumer products from the 1980s onwards.

Personally, I remember it because I remember seeing Word 6 and thinking 'at last they have caught up to Prowrite'.

Possibly there were other programs that did as well prior to that.

But Prowrite did it and had a red squiggly line under incorrect words.

https://www.atarimagazines.com/compute/issue123/P215_1_REVIE...

https://ourworldindata.org/profile/energy/united-states

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/09/online-al...

A windows laptop from today is vastly easier to code on that a C64 or whatever. Most houses would have an internet connection as well so they can get to all sorts of things.

A Raspberry Pi is probably something richer kids get to play with.

Have you had a look at Scratch?

https://scratch.mit.edu/

Primary School kids today in Australia often get a Chromebook and have some tutoring in Scratch. Again, it gets you the ideas of coding in a way that more kids will get.

You mention the lack of alternatives that got you and other kids into coding. That's probably a thing. There is so much more entertainment available today that most kids probably don't get bored like kids did in the past and sat down and learnt to code. It has to be more intentional.

When I was a kid my mum was a teacher and brought home a computer over the school holidays which had no games. I taught myself databases and spreadsheets because there was a good tutorial on that.

There is also probably something in that until, say, the 2010s computers were not quite ubiquitous enough that they were a constant part of kids lives. Certainly in the 1980s and 1990s there was something almost magical about the devices. A kid today who grows up in a household with smartphones, tablets, laptops and multiple smart TVs probably won't get the same thrill about moving an object around a screen as someone did 30+ years ago.

Also have a look at 'Coding Projects in Python' by DK books.

Both these books are excellent and would enable a smart and determined 11 year old to learn to code.

To be honest these books teach coding in a way that is much easier than it was in your day. You can also jump on many, many websites and teach yourself how to code.

You're also an exception. Many, many kids read those old Osborne books and only a very tiny fraction like yourself became coders and an even smaller fraction became as successful as yourself.

Both sites have survived and continue to work well for their users.

A small cost does definitely work for some sites.

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I'm now about half way through. It's really good.

https://archive.md/Q0DYu

Creating a good story, getting good actors and getting it all to come together is hard and still costs millions. At the end you may also not get your money back

Take 'I Swear', a very good recent film. It's well worth a watch.

It's made 8.3M. Has it made the money back?

It's not going to compete with 'The Mandalorian and Sidekick'.

That's likely to make several hundred million and still be fairly poor.

It's interesting to see how upset people are on Goodreads about that book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145624737-not-the-end-of...

The top reviews are mostly people angry with Ritchie for not being a catastrophist.