I know that we've joked about digital natives and digital immigrants. (If you wondering which one are you, click here.) Now, however, the digital natives are invading the workplace. And, no, I'm not talking about myself. True, I've grown up in the age of an IBM PC or PC Clone: the IBM PC is older than I am. But I'm clearly not the only one. The recent 21-year-old college graduates (Class of 2006) were:
born in 1985 -- 10 years after the first consumer computers went on sale and the same year that the breakthrough "third generation" video game, Nintendo's "Super Mario Brothers," first went to market.
-Pew Research Center
And that makes ME feel old. Sure, I'm only four years older, but if we think in terms of technology, four years ago there were only the very first iPods (patented in 2002) hitting the market.
I'm not trying to make anyone feel old - just realize that the world has changed significantly.
'This is only technology for people who weren't raised with it.' Whoa. The point that came home to rest for me is that for LaShonda, IM'ing and texting are like breathing. Fish don't know they're in water. LaShonda didn't consider her gadgets technology."
-IBID
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