“I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:
1) Everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal.

2) Anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it.

3) Anything that gets invented after you’re thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it until it’s been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really.

Apply this list to movies, rock music, word processors and mobile phones to work out how old you are.”

I love to upload my pictures to Walmart.com. When we go on vacation, I will take digital pictures, upload them, and they will be waiting for me in the store to pick up when I get home (if I want hard copies). And, rather than me having to worry about backing them up on CD, they can do that for me too – less work on my part.

What’s amazing to me is that children can’t imagine it any other way. This is how they live and breath – always talking and interconnecting. Yet, when they go to school – they are “disconnected.”

Have you read any of Marc Prensky’s writings? I was able to hear him speak at NECC05 in Philadelpha. He’s awesome. http://www.marcprensky.com/

I feel like I am always trying to catch up, don’t you?