This talk aims to examine young people's engagement with technology in today's risk averse culture. It asks what needs to be done to ensure this opens new opportunities for future innovation. Flattering children about their use of technology does little to advance their understanding or stimulate their desire to develop or engage with the "magic" that underlies the technology itself. While their lived experience propels them to increasingly adopt digital technologies, this adoption remains superficial and is more often than not, quite trivial. However, some new developments like the initiative to develop mobile devices as authoring environments for application development show how it might be possible to turn the potential of digital children into the source of massive disruptive innovation in the future.