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Notes on the intersection of demographics and technology
March 2008 - Posts
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I saw this piece in today's Seattle Times, headlined " Industrial Work Force Short on Tech Savvy ." It's yet another reminder that the skills gap is making itself felt in the US economy, sector by sector, even in the midst of a looming recession. Anyone Read More...
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Shelly Palmer has a very interesting piece up at the Huffington Post titled " US Digital Deficiency Jeopardizes Super-Power Status ." No time to comment at length, but here's a taste: Children born in America this year will be the first true Digital Natives Read More...
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I've been AWOL from the blog this week because I've been heads-down on some work I'm doing regarding the future of the insurance industry (hey, gotta pay the bills...). Because I do the majority of my work in the high-tech sector, which for all its issues Read More...
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Symantec, the IT security company, recently released a study of IT risks posed by the social computing workstyle of Millennials in the workforce. Obviously Symantec is not a disinterested party, but their findings are very interesting and validate many Read More...
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My mom celebrated a birthday yesterday. I hope she won't mind my telling you all that it was number 71. Earlier this week, she was in Atlanta meeting with potential clients and discussing healthcare informatics technology with people from the CDC. Though Read More...
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"Sequential art" is a fancy way of saying "comics." Manga is of course the Japanese style of comics, now wildly popular around the world and generating readership among young people that American comics haven't experienced in many, many years. In fact, Read More...
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Arthur C. Clarke, one of the great visionaries of science fiction, died yesterday at the age of 90. I remember reading his book Imperial Earth when I was about 12 years old and thinking how cool it was that in the future, everyone walked around with computers Read More...
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I just did my first radio interview for Generation Blend, on the Small Business Advocate show with Jim Blasingame (link to be posted as soon as I get it). Jim is a great interviewer and did his best to drag the story out of me, but as much as I tried Read More...
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Posts today over at Salon (" What's the Matter with Kids Today? Nothing, actually. Aside from our panic that the Internet is melting their brains ") and SmartMobs (" A Poor Excuse for a Social Life ") offer two different takes on one of the more interesting Read More...
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Solutions Research Group has a great report out today on "Disconnect Anxiety," a psychological biproduct of our always on, always connected digital culture. According to their findings, being disconnected gives rise to four main types of worry - safety Read More...
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Mark Edmundson, a professor of English at the University of Virginia, has a thought-provoking and well-written essay in the Chronicle of Higher Education on the transformation of the learning experience in the age of ubiquitous networks. He seems sympathetic Read More...
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One of the main issues on the minds of employers is the well-documented willingness of young employees to up and leave if things aren't to their liking. According to a study by the Pew Research Center published in January, 2007, 72 percent of Millennials Read More...
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Dan has a post up at Future of Information Work on the question of whether Millennials are actually different in important ways from previous generations of young people (and young workers), or if they are just "troublesome" to employers because all 20-somethings Read More...
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There's an interesting article at CIO.com today discussing the ongoing problems that employers are having with (mostly younger) workers accessing their social networking sites at work. CIO points out that, while it is technically possible to ban access Read More...
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