In the final chapter of the text, the authors of the book, via recorded email shared their final words on digital natives and how they believe things need to change for the best possible future. The Stone article was about how due to the more rapid evolution of technology sub-generations are developing between younger brothers and sisters who have a completely different sense of technology. The article mentions a split between the the "net generation" who are born in the 80s and the "iGeneration" who are born in the 90s.
Question: How has being born more than 5 years before or after someone close to you affected the way you use technology? Does whichever of you is younger have a firmer grasp on newer technology or do you have about an equal grasp.
I found it very interesting that there are now what some people consider "sub-generations". I am 4 years older than my brother, but I feel like we come from different technological backgrounds. He seems much more knowledgeable about things like mobile devices than and my peers and I do. He sees text messages as a replacement for phone calls or instant messages in that they need to be instantly responded to, whereas I see texts more like email in that I send and receive them whenever I happen to check my cellphone.
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