Monday
16Nov2009
Today's Geeks are not Yesterday's Geeks...
Monday, November 16, 2009 at 9:59PM
...and certainly are nothing compared to what is to come.
The current social norm for an average High School student is a Myspace account and for the college student a Facebook. Boom, done, a geek.
With an online profile, kids these days have an active social life on the Internet and what was once known as "out of the real world".
Growing up with a full menu of electronic devices readily available and easily digestible equals a new generation of super geeks.
If the young people of this generation are so "switched on" and "plugged in" what is going to happen to the kids of the next generation? <insert Captain Picard here>
Are we creating a machine (society) that teaches our young that it is ok to sit and consume behind a computer screen? When I say consume I mean to say, electronically "eat" information and learn through megaBITES. Is the information we are processing as a collective even the right information anymore or is it too bite sized and false?
What happens to the next generations when they are all learned from the last which staggers from the information that was brought to them from the Internet?
To me, honestly, this is a scary thought when the Internet is able to teach our kids instead of us (the parents, teachers, elders) teaching us what is right, wrong, morally ethical and socially prudent.
New generations are having to rely on information based around 140 character "tweets" that are shrunken, compressed and in the process changed and given new directions. These new microBITES are shared with millions and resubmitted in a new smaller form that totally contradicts what the first one stated.
Information being readily available in an extremely fast manner is not always the correct information but as the generations grow up and new ones take over they will want it faster and faster.
I get mad when my downloads take longer than they should. Drive to a store for a product? Hmm, what is that now?
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