A comment on the NYT about tech use in people aged 30 and under, it reads;
"Unfortunately, most of what the up –and-coming generation knows is pertinent to technology., whereas the older generations (older than mine) were well versed in a plethora of knowledge. I’m jealous.”
Personally, I am in total agreement. This younger generation lives on their technology, whatever happened to the childhood where you would talk to your friends in person instead of texting them and playing outside together instead of Trivia crack from each other's respective homes. I don't think they know how to act like proper kids anymore honestly, but they sure do know their way around an iPhone or iPad.
Granted, being able to look up information in the blink of an eye is awesome. Having a world of knowledge at your fingertips either on your phone or on a computer is insane, something like this didn't exist forty something years back. The older generation is even more mind blown considering they grew up getting information for papers by spending hours upon hours in a library. Whereas now the younger kids can just type the subject that they are trying to research into Google and receive hundreds upon thousands of results pertaining to it.
Sure the older generation might have gotten the short end of the stick. But what is the point with all this technology and vast available knowledge when it ends up going in one ear and out the other. The younger generation hardly pays attention to all the information we have available to us and that is sad in so many ways. They don't actually learn anymore.
But i admire the older generation that is well versed in knowledge, they had to learn if they were going to get anywhere in life. It makes me jealous that they were raised in such a manner that knowledge was vast and having access to it was a privilege, something the younger generation cannot understand.
I agree that the generation now struggles with interacting with each other. My husband is a psychologist and often says that the biggest difference between this generation and older generations is that the younger generation struggles more with connecting with people on a deeper level. When you only look at someone through the "lens" of their Instagram or Facebook page, you only see what they want you to see. And deep down we all know that means that we aren't really getting to know our "friends."
ReplyDeleteI really like your post, and I definitely agree that the younger generations just don't understand that these technology and having access to it, is such a privilege that they take for granted. They have all of these information in the palm of their hands, but it does go in one ear and out another but then you see someone doing something extraordinary with these kind of knowledge, and you have to think to yourselves that it is worth it, and that the generation is full of different types of people, that can do great things.
ReplyDeleteI think it is wonderful that you recognize that access to knowledge and information is a privilege!
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