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Notes on the intersection of demographics and technology
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This is a re-run from the old Emphasis Added, originally posted July 25, 2005 . It's in line with my current interests and seemed like it was worth a re-post. Imagine for a moment that technology, globalization and other “big trend” factors have transformed Read More...
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This brutal takedown of Mark Baurlein's The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future, or Don't Trust Anyone Under Thirty over at the Huffington Post raises some good points about the perennial efforts Read More...
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A couple of weeks ago, there was a minor furor caused by Lenore Skenazy, a New York parent who allowed - even encouraged - her 9 year-old son to find his own way back from Bloomingdale's to their home on the Upper West Side, riding the subway on his own. Read More...
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American Millennials enjoy (or perhaps not) a reputation as conformists and group-thinkers among some generation-watchers, but apparently they have nothing on their peers in the PRC. My old pal Matt Forney had a piece on the New York Times Op-Ed page Read More...
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Clay Shirky writes : "Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring. The invention of a tool doesn't create change; it has to be around long enough that most of society is using it... for our young people today, 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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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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Generation Blend draws most of its data about generational attitudes and experiences from the United States. There's every reason to believe that the digital age gap exists around the world, especially in societies that made an abrupt transition from Read More...
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I just finished reading Limbo: Blue-Collar Roots, White Collar Dreams , Alfred Lubrano's excellent first-person account of the divide in values separating blue-collar and professional classes in America. Lubrano, an award-winning journalist and NPR commentator, Read More...
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