If you’re driven nuts by your eight-year-old’s addiction to Minecraft, read this story. “…Minecraft culture is a throwback to the heady early days of the digital age. In the late ’70s and ’80s, the arrival of personal computers like the Commodore 64 gave rise to the first generation of kids fluent in computation. They learned to program in Basic, to write software that they swapped excitedly with their peers. It was a playful renaissance that eerily parallels the embrace of Minecraft by today’s youth. … Minecraft may well be this generation’s personal computer … [it] has become a stealth gateway to the fundamentals, and the pleasures, of computer science. Those kids of the ’70s and ’80s grew up to become the architects of our modern digital world, with all its allures and perils. What will the Minecraft generation become?” Read: “The Minecraft Generation: How a clunky Swedish computer game is teaching mns of children to master the digital world.”