This article presents the author's personal view of interactive digital television and describes how he used digital television to learn. The author describes how he was simulating digital TV while watching analogue TV. The author stresses that interactive digital television has great potential for education and training in the twenty first century, enabling each individual learner to get support for learning a personalised and individualised curriculum. Using it seems to open the possibility of enabling a child to learn to use keyboard and screen to "read and write" on the World Wide Web before starting formal schooling. (Contains 15 online resources.)