Nature and technology are for most people mutually exclusive
realms. Many sympathize with Richard Louv’s judgment in Last
Child in the Woods that generations born since the 1970s are increasingly
victims to what he calls “nature-defi cit disorder.”1 Predictably,
Louv’s primary culprits are television and the electronic
devices that have come to occupy a disproportionate amount of
our time—computers and game consoles in particular.