For the past week or so we've been discussing this phenomena that has occurred in our generation. we have been called Digital natives. And looking around its funny to think that this is real. We are the first generation to grow up completely surrounded by this new tech known as the internet and computers. our parents generation had computer after Gates and Steve Jobs made them. So in wondering why our parents do not understand, almost inatly, how a computer works shouldn't too much of a shocker.
Just the other day after having tried to print a document about 15 times, my parents call for me saying, "John, Fix the printer" and all that had happened was someone had paused the printer.
But that just goes to show that we as a generation are completely different from the previous one. Is that a good thing or a bad? i think its good but some think other wise. for example a kid in my Japanese class says that computers are just making us dumber, and in a way he is right but in others he is wrong. With computers most people forget how to use a card catalog ( like the old school ones with the 30 drawers and the index cards >_<) but we are also are smarter at utilizing this new tech in many ways, search engines, music sites, Gaming, designing. You name it. if you want to do it, theres a way to do it via a computer.
I wonder how the future will change when our generation will be considered foreigners to a new tech.
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I don't think any one generation is smarter or dumber than the previous one when it comes to technology; technology is a tool. We grew up with computers, we know how to use them. The last generation grew up with catalogs, they know how to use those. We're not any smarter than them, we just know how to use the tools we grew up with, and they can use theirs.
However, like you said, our tools are for more versatile.
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