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Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation
by
Don Tapscott (Goodreads Author)
The bestselling book announcing the arrival of the NetGeneration--those kids who are growing up digital--now in paperback. Heraled by Library Journal as one of the Best Business Books of 1997, Growing Up Digital tells how the N-Generation is learning to communicate, work, shop and play in profoundly new ways--and what implications this has for the world and business.
Growi
...morePaperback, 336 pages
Published
June 9th 1999
by McGraw-Hill Companies
(first published 1997)
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Who are they this next net generation? According to Don Tapscott they are smarter, more efficient, more productive and confident than their parents. And all of it thanks to the new technology, the Internet and social networking. It does not matter that they don't read books, or don't know where Uganda on the map is, they don't worry because everything is on the Interent now, one-click away. It is better to keep your memory free, who needs to memorise poetry or God forbid some facts, books take ...more
Read this for an annotated bibliography I'm doing on integrating new technologies into youth services librarianship. His basic message kind of comes across as, "the internet is creating a new generation who will be completely post-racial, post-capitalist, and post-hate in general. Behold, they shall lead us into a new utopia, just as soon as those nasty Baby Boomers are out of the way." I know that's probably not what Tapscott intends, but that is how it feels, and he's a little too...more
On my initial read years ago I thought Tapscott made some good points but I thought it was poorly written due to level of repetiton... then. And now, I wanted to reread to refresh my memory of his prognostications and current commentary on net gens in workforce. Still a hard read and Tapscott was way too complimentary on affect of digital age
a description of the 'net generation'
what struck me most was the interactivity that most recent technologies employ in response to the net generation... and the fact these young ones can use so many technologies, but are technologically illiterate as they do not know how they function... they just use them...
what struck me most was the interactivity that most recent technologies employ in response to the net generation... and the fact these young ones can use so many technologies, but are technologically illiterate as they do not know how they function... they just use them...
Free to good home. Very interesting read.
This was prolly a rocking book in the late 1990s or 2000. He brings up some great points, but I just couldn't power through it, too much has changed technologically.
If he were to update it I would read it in a second though...
If he were to update it I would read it in a second though...
Profiles the 'rise of the Net Generation'. The distinction between passive mediums such as television and interactive digital media, and how our children are making use of it.
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Don Tapscott, one of the world's leading authorities on innnovation and technology, is Chairman of Moxie Insight. He was founder and chairman of the international think tank New Paradigm before its acquisition by nGenera.
Don is an internationally sought writer, consultant and speaker on business strategy and
organizational transformation. He has given more than 400 keynotes spe...more
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