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re The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:05:43 -0500
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From: Michael Slavitch <slavitch () gmail com> Date: January 11, 2010 11:58:22 AM EST To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s
My teenage daughter is anecdotal confirmation of this. Her cellphone plan is cheap data, unlimited messaging and expensive voice, which she uses to call old-fogy adults like me.Michael Slavitch Ottawa Ontario CanadaOn Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:37 AM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:Begin forwarded message: From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: January 11, 2010 9:54:41 AM EST To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>Subject: [Dewayne-Net] The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s[Note: This item comes from friend Mike Cheponis. DLH] From: Michael Cheponis <mac () Culver Net> Date: January 11, 2010 6:15:48 AM PST Subject: The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s New York Times Jan. 9, 2009The ever-accelerating pace of technological change may be minting a series of mini-generation gaps, with each group of children uniquely influenced by the tech tools available in their formative stages of development, says psychologist Larry Rosen and the author of the coming "Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn."Now in their 20s, those in the Net Generation, according to Dr. Rosen, spend two hours a day talking on the phone and still use e- mail frequently. The iGeneration - conceivably their younger siblings - spends considerably more time texting than talking on the phone, pays less attention to television than the older group and tends to communicate more over instant-messenger networks.Dr. Rosen said that the newest generations, unlike their older peers, will expect an instant response from everyone they communicate with, and won't have the patience for anything less.[snip] <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/weekinreview/10stone.html> RSS Feed: <http://www.warpspeed.com/wordpress> ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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