The cost of including technology in our school curriculum is high. There is no doubt there. Many people wonder, however, what the long-term cost of not including technology in the curriculum might be. Technology exposes students to experiences not available to them before. "Open Your Eyes: The Evidence is There," (Technology and Learning, September 1997), poses this question: How can anyone dismiss tools that allow students to manipulate 3-D mathematical objects, access primary sources at the Library of Congress on-line, gather and compare environmental data with students around the world, and publish their writing on the Internet, not just on the refrigerator?