Entering the Shift Age : The End of the Information Age and the New Era of Transformation (9781402272189) by Houle David

Author:Houle, David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc
Published: 2012-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

The first wave of this generation has never experienced a time without the Internet, mobile phones, or high-speed wireless connectivity. They have grown up with Search as a reality and immediate option. As children, they had all of the world’s knowledge just a few keystrokes away. They are the first generation born into the earlier-described reality of no-placeness, of being able to communicate with and connect to anyone and anyplace in the world.

Another way of thinking about the Digital Natives is through the lens of what most Boomers and Gen Xers call “information overload.” I think that one of the most often-asked questions I have gotten from audiences all around the world is something along the lines of “How can I keep up, how can I deal with information overload?” This, of course, is quite understandable to you members of either of those two generations.

The Digital Natives, though, are the first generation born into the connected, information-overloaded world. Since this is all they have ever known, they don’t think of it as overload, just reality.

As parents, we have all seen this with our teenaged and younger children. They sit with the television on, connected to the Internet, maintaining multiple text conversations, while listening to music on their earbuds. No stress, just hyperprocessing of incoming and available data.

All of the technological inventions and innovations of the Information Age—computers, fax machines, communication satellites, cable television, mobile phones, Internet, laptops, tablets, high-speed wireless connectivity, Search, social media—are things that all previous generations, including the Millennials born in the 1980s, came to through time. The Digital Natives are the first generation for whom all these things were available to them as children. Every prior generation has had to adapt to these inventions and, to some degree, alter established behavior to do so after childhood. To the Digital Natives, this is their reality.

Digital Natives are the first generation of the twenty-first century. There is no remembrance, legacy thinking, established pattern of behavior, thought, or cultural context from the twentieth century. They are a clean-slate generation.

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