The youth of today

It is the school holidays, so I am sitting in a children's indoor jungle gym sorting out my slides for Ireland while my son rushes around.

Having someone working on a laptop here seems to be a bit of novelty. I have had a number of children rush over to see what I am doing. They don't stay watching long when they spot the VPC of SQL 2008 and a PowerPoint stack.

What does it take to excite the youth of today? I despair if data structures does not interest them; whatever will - compiler theory?