Artificially Intelligent

My kids are smart, well at least they think they are. Sure, they are learning things and being exposed to increasingly more at a younger age than any previous generation. With information swirling all around them and technology providing the conduit to never leave an inquiring mind bored, their database-driven brains are constantly stockpiling facts and stats. Notice that I close my words very carefully above - my kids are smart, not yet intelligent. Reciting facts and miscellaneous statistics are useful, but they are just the building blocks of true intelligence.