Youth 'cannot live' without web

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8305731.stm

8 7 17 years ago

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Quite a turnaround from the mid 1990s when admitting you actually used the Internet made you stick out like a geek at school. Well, in the UK anyway :)

BigZaphod• 17 years ago

It's not just "youth" that feel that way - I know I do - but I'm old and irrelevant now that I'm 30.

eleitl2• 17 years ago

I'm 43, and a "digital native", too. And I question this "understand deeply" thing. I would not claim to understand the Internet deeply, and I'm only a professional user since 1992, or so.

req2• 17 years ago

It's the difference between a 18 year old French speaker that learned French from the cradle, and a 43 year old French speaker that learned French to fluency in college.

eleitl2• 17 years ago

The point I was trying to make is that many of the so-called digital natives don't know shit.

I'm only doing computing since 1981 or so (it was mostly goats, earthen floors, abacuses and kerosene lamps before), and every day I'm painfully reminded how little I know. Now enter the so-called digital native.

So excuse me if I laugh politely at your metaphor.

enobrev• 17 years ago

Inevitable. What will really be interesting is when they're older and realize that instant access to all human knowledge is a basic human right, and launch satellites (or finally get mesh networks working right) for truly ubiquitous internet.

indranil• 17 years ago

The internet has basically, and correct me please if I go overboard, become a massive cultural melting-pot. It's like a single country above all these borders in the real world, and that I think appeals to a lot of the people today.

Youth 'cannot live' without web

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