The Economist - The net generation

"The kids are alright"
From The Economist print edition
Nov 13th 2008
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The Internet contaminates today's youth. In this article, the writer of "Growing Up Digital" Don Tapscott disagrees to that statement about the young people of today and backs his points up with a worldwide study. In his opinion the problem is that the baby-boomers do not recognize the change among the youth. For that reason he compares the generations over and over again. He says that the new, first global generation ever is better and more active than the older, TV-watching couch-potato-generation. In his view, gamers, bloggers and instant-messagers are better at multi-tasking. Tapscott is equalizing the ban on facebook at work with the ban of rolodexes. His worries, on the other hand, relate to today's education and youth's lack of regard for privacy. Tapscott finishes by saying that the new generation has improved it's family life through family conversations about the Internet and it's dangers.