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The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'

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Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
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