The mainstream media always sensationalizes news stories about child predators and pornography on the internet. They seem to urge parents to closely monitor their kid’s computer activity and put up safeguard software to be especially vigilant. Although I’m not a parent myself, I can understand their biological need to protect their offspring from potential harm – but are we doing so at the cost of shielding them from the greatest possible resource tool humankind has ever created? We’re no longer living in a time where life’s path is cookie-cutter and easy to predict chronologically. In the “old” days, it was about going to college, scoring a great entry-level job at a top company, buying