Monday, January 11, 2010

Micro Generations?

This article in the New York Times discusses the topic of growing up in a changing digital world. The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s discusses the idea that because technology is changing so rapidly, even 20 somethings have different values habits and expectations than people who are in their teens. I'm not sure I agree that rapidly changing technology creates these micro generations. Yes, my younger sisters do text way more than I do, but I still text. The article's author was also astounded to realize that a 2 year old identified a kindle as a book. The technolgoy people of different ages use are just varied tools accomplishing similar tasks: entertainment, communication etc. I don't think the effect will be quite as drastic as the article makes it out to be, though there will always be generation gaps.

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