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It's okay, kids these days are used to it. Just like how kids back then got used to radio, pulp, and television.
by alaskamiller 14y ago
It's okay, kids these days are used to it. Just like how kids back then got used to radio, pulp, and television.
- GuiA 14y agoHave you even read the article?
- alaskamiller 14y agoMy point is that as the fidelity of signals become stronger we acclimate to it. Turn back 6 years and the connectedest Gen Y lighting up on the internet felt the same way, in the circles I traveled many espoused the same self-aware sentiment as this, some even without the benefit of being Gibsonites. Now that Gen Z is lighting up, crowding into Instagram, inheriting Reddit, rebuilding Tumblr, you know what I see? The most connectedest again are repeating the same sentiment and make believing they're the only ones in all of history to hold such perspective. It's the same generational gap meme. Over and over again. Eventually the Gen Z grow old and grow out of using whatever trends charmed them. Then we get the reverb about how awkward of phase it was in the aughts and 10's that we became a generation addicted to black mirrors in the palm of our hands like the 70's was about sparking up and 80's was about indulging in cocaine in social situations. And as I get older and on my march of filing out of the 18-35 demographics the more I learn and realize it's always been this way, but took awhile for the education to reveal itself. From the times of pulp fiction to radio surfing. And it will forever be this way as each generation arrive. Just wait until the babies having grown up entirely with glass become self aware.
- mbetter 14y agoI'm not sure what you're going on about.
- wolfpackk 14y agotldr: get off my lawn kids will forever be the sentiment of the current old generation while lol we r so hip will be the sentiment of the 18-20somethings. I don't think this realization is as profound as he is making it seem though, c'est la vie
- alaskamiller 14y agoProfundity is all personalization syntactic sugar these days anyway. La vie.
- leoh 14y agoWait, what? This made me laugh. May be true, but the way you said it, "syntacti sugar"... So cynical...
- sut101 14y agoIt seems he's reacting to the headline, not the article.
- datalus 14y agoAre you implying that the generations that have already come to pass on the net still don't fundamentally understand its true potential? And at some point one generation will harness that potential and until then we are just stepping stones?
- hnriot 14y agoYou make absolutely no sense and its patently obvious you haven't read the article.