Be Prepared For A Generational Shift In Technology
May 3, 2013
For the first time in history, a majority of the coming of age generation has been raised connected to the Internet. This digital generation has never experienced life without the Internet. Wired explores how the millennial generation views the world and what the older generation can expect in: “Meet The First Digital Generation. Now Get Ready To Play By Their Rules.” The article details how the millennial generation views their lives through a digital perspective. Texting is the preferred form of communication, while emails are at the bottom of the preferred list along with actual telephone calls. They spend hours posting information on social media Web sites, concentrating on making their identities (yes, more than one) interesting and appealing their social networks.
“This, perhaps, is the most profound of the digital Nisei’s new rules: Make no distinction between the real and the virtual. Actions that begin in one realm play out in the other. They are interwoven. Every year, Beloit professor Tom McBride and collaborator Ron Nief compile the Beloit Mindset List, a guide to the cultural underpinnings of the undergraduate psyche. “They identify with Web sites more than with states or religions,’ Nief and McBride wrote in 2009.”
We are in a generational shift where the traditional ways will be replaced when the less tech-savvy generations move on and the millennials take over. Boundaries will be broken and new rules will be the standard. Also expect there to be changes coming to search and research because of generational shifts.
Whitney Grace, May 03, 2013
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Beyond Search
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