With evolving technology, younger children are inevitably going to grow up around this new technology. This leads us to Generation F. Children now are growing up with things such as Facebook and Twitter, and thus things are going to be very different.
The biggest change I can imagine in the future is a change in social interaction. Letters are going out cause you can just email someone whatever you want. You're probably not going to have long phone calls either catching up cause you can do a quick glance at someone's Facebook page and boom you know everything you need to know.
Another major change would be people making a ton of new things. Number 2 on the list delves into this as thanks to online, people just make what they want. They don't need to be a rocket scientist to make a video or something. Technology is making it so easy for people just to sit down and make what they want without a lot of experience. Of course, this also has downsides as you're going to end up with a lot of...mediocre content as that's what happens when you allow just about anyone to upload a video onto Youtube. You will get lower quality media. While there will be more content, the quality will not be as good.
Overall, this new Generation F will directly impact our future. As kids will have grown up with all this new social media and nothing else that it will just be what they're knowledgeable in. Old ways will be thrown away and new ways through technology will be the way of the future. That's just how it goes when you grow up with a certain something, you simply don't know much about the "olden days".
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ReplyDeleteYou got me thinking--along the lines of contributions counting for more than credentials. Taking that into consideration, along with what we read about Mike Wesch and his disillusioned students, do you think formal higher-education could lose some of it's clout as more generation effers come of college-age? If so much focus is shifting toward these online characteristics, do you think the offline skills of yesteryear are going to matter less? I think there's adaptation going on at Universities right now to bring official accreditation to formal-education-independent online skills--this class, for example. Colleges are responding, but are future employers going to care as much about your degree if you don't know how to blog? A high school dropout could know more about gaming and xml and hacking and whatever because he spent his time glued to a computer while you slaved away in a classroom and thought about what books meant. Like, what's going to matter more ten years down the road? Will knowing how to format a webpage trump grammar and literacy?
It's a brave new world out there my man.
Dmitri,
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't think it's right for children to start their lives with this new technology. The more they get into this technology as a child, the more they push and push for the expensive technology as they grow older. I would have to say it's not too much of a bad thing, but my child won't have a cell phone until he/she is 13. That's when I got one. Do you think more people are going to read books, now that most everything is on the internet?
what will happen to book stores?
-Tiffany