Well I have one of those Major birthdays coming up and am, I suppose, particularly sensitive to aging (thus my current musical selections that include Black Eyed Peas and Pink at high decibels in my yellow Escape!). But today I came across an article on Generation Tech. It seems that one of the major differentiators of these mostly under 25 tech natives is the use of thumbs:
This generation is better than any before at absorbing information and making decisions quickly, as well as at multitasking and parallel processing. In contrast, people age 30 or older are “digital immigrants” because they can never be as fluent in technology as a native who was born into it. You can see it in the digital immigrants’ “accent” — whether it is printing out e-mails or typing with fingers rather than thumbs. Have you ever noticed that digital natives, unlike digital immigrants, don’t talk about “information overload”? Rather, they crave more information.
OK, so they also can handle information overload, oops, another age give away. The article in strategy and business was suggesting that these are the workers who convinced Bill Gates that the internet was the future - but wasn't I part of that generation? So I'm left wondering if my desire to stay on the mobile cutting edge is a genuine passion for technology or a sign of desperate aging. Yikes!