Mitchel Resnick, of the MIT Media Lab: "Access is not enough. Access is just a starting point." "It's not about playing games, but about making your own games. It's not about surfing the Web, but it's about making your own Web pages. It's not just about downloading MP3 music files, but doing your own music composition." "We want to see young people literally taking their own ideas and creating." One of the biggest draws is the digital studio, a glass-enclosed back room equipped with a synthesizer, microphones and a CD-burning computer loaded with software to create and edit music. During recording sessions, the glass trembles with booming bass notes and synthesized percussion. At first, anyone could drop in and use the studio, "but so many people were going back there that it got to the point where we had to put in some limits." "There were other places kids could go and get access to computers ... But it wasn't satisfying the need that we saw that was out there for kids to express themselves, to create something, to have a sense that they could bring about change with the technology." The future of intellectual property is under construction at the Computer Clubhouse. What does it mean for your business model? Not Just Closing a Divide, but Leaping It | 
