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Max UgazPublicado en el web de Digital Natives.
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Olivier Le Deuffpropos en commentaire de l'article :
" 5. Shava Nerad - January 4, 2008
I started on punch cards and manual typewriters and handwriting at about the same time in 1964. I was writing and reading English and FORTRAN in Kindergarden. I was the girl geek with the computer geeks in high school in the early 70’s, and was a Chief Software Engineer (and writing on USENET — when do I get my “USENET was my blog” t-shirt?) in 1982.
By that time, nearly all my friends were working on computers and mostly on the Net at DEC, the AI Lab, LCS, various startups around Cambridge, all the companies on 128…oh, and hundreds of places that were also on USENET, BITNET, or whatever.
I felt a little alienated from even some of geek culture of the time. I spent most of the 80’s and early 90’s trying over and over again to get my parents (both born in the early 20’s) to understand what it was that I *did* for a living.
Saying that my friends and I were the vanguard of digital natives is kind of like saying that people in the 20’s were the vanguard of non-participatory music, or that youth in the 50’s were the vanguard of the TV generation.
It’s all true, but it’s only meaningful in very specific contexts, perhaps. EVERY generation changes. We haven’t invented change with the Internet. The changes with the advent of TV, or the advent of recorded/broadcast music, or the “invention of childhood” are all also significant periods of change in social interaction, even globally.
That said, what is the Digital Natives project doing to study my generation of 40-50-somethings who may predict some of their ideas of what comes next for this critical mass of millenials? Do folks like me even come onto your radar?
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