Opinion

May 6, 2019

Draw the internet: the web as seen by the world’s school children

Here's what happens when you ask 30 school children to draw the internet.


Dries De Roeck

3 min read

Diewke, 9, from Belgium

In order to think properly about the future of the internet, we need to look to younger generations. As part of our quest to understand what the internet is — and could be — we gave primary school children one seemingly simple instruction: “Draw the internet”. No rules, no judging — anything goes.

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