Our world is evolving and it’s doing it extremely quickly. While reading Growing Up Digital by John Seely Brown, it definitely put into perspective our world as it never really has before. As us young adults go on day by day, we never take the time and stop to think that life as we know it today has changed dramatically from, per say, the time periods our elders lived in.
We have been learning from computers probably from as long as we can remember. More and more so over the years, obviously, but still continuously throughout our lives. Most of us have learned to read off of computers or learn how to do math. Anything that involved computers helped us progress in learning at a much faster pace than, say, our parents or even especially our grandparents.
I got my first own computer when I was 14. Think about this…most of our grandparents got their probably around the ages of 60, and a lot still don’t have any – nor do they want one!
I remember when I traveled up north to visit with my family, I brought my lap top. I sat at that things for hours fiddling around with God knows what. I hooked it up to the phone line and started talking on AOL Instant Messager. My grandparents had never even heard of anything like this before and immediately ran for their glasses so they could get a better look at this new technology. She wanted to sit down and have a try at my computer, but came to realize rather quickly that she looked like an idiot next to her granddaughter who was obviously more experienced and skilled in this field. I typed about 1,000 times faster than she did and she knew it. The hunt-and-peck method was all she knew.
I think that from here on out, the world will continue to grow in the field of technology. I see nothing but optimism for our future. If we can learn so much quicker and so much more than our ancestors, then I can only imagine what our youth of tomorrow will be able to do.
Growing Up Digital
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