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Bluelighter
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- Sep 25, 2002
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This question arises in my head quite often.. Being one in the generation of Y, I was born into a world that would grow with me. 1982, my birth year, the first PC (apple computers, which ever apple was out) was released... around 1982 was when big talks about the Internet started to really materialize. In 1983, on year after I am born, when all of my connections are starting to form... the world around me is being influenced by another baby... the net. As I grow, it is exponentially gaining a base of users, starting first from hard core computer scientist/hacker-types, stringing into internet supercompanies like AOL in the early 90s.
In a way, the 'Y' generation can be seen as experimental. We're the first of it's kind. We have all the information we could ever need, right here at our fingertips... within our generation, instead of couch potatos, we've created a breed youth bent on nothing but instant gratification, something that works well with the drug world, as well as the world of computers and video games. Both go hand and hand.
The question with this is this. Putting a realistic frame over everything.. how much longer do you think we can go at the current 'primitive' state? In an age where information can be accessed multiple ways, with multiple possible presentations of that information, and an infinite amout of ways to interpret, as well as a gereration who is completely at home with the technology and able to take full advatange..... where music is as free as information, because it is information. Where at the touch of a button, or a combination of, we can look up what would take at least a drive to the library to find only peices of.
Now research can be looked at by everyone.. Now everyone has the capability of "knowing". News is posted quicker than ever before, and just as soon as the news is posted, an alternative opinion is available.... or at least, a bunch of information can verify or discount, or challenge.
Is the world coming to a stage of efficient multitasking? Is there such a thing as too much information? How are computers shaping us? really think about it.. and report. It's pretty staggering to think how much the world has changed.. just in the past 20 years...... what will our generation do to seal our slice of the cake? Will there even be any cake left for others to enjoy? How long can a species live with outdated governing ideals, in a world that is very transparent, where trust is very rare. How long can we live? Is the world passing our predecessors by?
Basically.. where do you think the next 10 years will take us? any response is welcome.
In a way, the 'Y' generation can be seen as experimental. We're the first of it's kind. We have all the information we could ever need, right here at our fingertips... within our generation, instead of couch potatos, we've created a breed youth bent on nothing but instant gratification, something that works well with the drug world, as well as the world of computers and video games. Both go hand and hand.
The question with this is this. Putting a realistic frame over everything.. how much longer do you think we can go at the current 'primitive' state? In an age where information can be accessed multiple ways, with multiple possible presentations of that information, and an infinite amout of ways to interpret, as well as a gereration who is completely at home with the technology and able to take full advatange..... where music is as free as information, because it is information. Where at the touch of a button, or a combination of, we can look up what would take at least a drive to the library to find only peices of.
Now research can be looked at by everyone.. Now everyone has the capability of "knowing". News is posted quicker than ever before, and just as soon as the news is posted, an alternative opinion is available.... or at least, a bunch of information can verify or discount, or challenge.
Is the world coming to a stage of efficient multitasking? Is there such a thing as too much information? How are computers shaping us? really think about it.. and report. It's pretty staggering to think how much the world has changed.. just in the past 20 years...... what will our generation do to seal our slice of the cake? Will there even be any cake left for others to enjoy? How long can a species live with outdated governing ideals, in a world that is very transparent, where trust is very rare. How long can we live? Is the world passing our predecessors by?
Basically.. where do you think the next 10 years will take us? any response is welcome.