http://profy.com/2008/05/01/disney-extreme-digital-web20expo/ Internet news and commentary Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:16:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://profy.com/2008/05/01/disney-extreme-digital-web20expo/#comment-655821 Internet Share information » Blog Archive » Forget Gen Y, What Will We See with Gen Z? Tue, 27 May 2008 00:51:53 +0000 http://profy.com/2008/05/01/disney-extreme-digital-web20expo/#comment-655821 [...] Obviously, living in my household, the kids are probably being exposed to a little more than your average family (my oldest had her own blog when she was three), but even among her friends whose parents share a single email inbox (the thought of having only one inbox myself makes me want to hide under the covers until the nightmare passes), the kids are all hanging out on Webkinz and Disney Fairies and pestering their parents about how old they have to be to get a Facebook account. While I was horrified at the demo for Disney eXtreme Digital, I’m willing to bet that she already wins hands down in a multitasking contest with Louis Gray and his “Continuous Parallel Attention.” While most of us are still learning how to manage the firehose, these kids are growing up with it, lapping it up like a baby’s bottle. Something tells me they @won’t be taking the same time we do for the navel-gazing. They’ll just want to get on with it. And for all our use of Web 2.0, and analysis of it, to them it will be as outdated as a^ typewriter. [...] [...] Obviously, living in my household, the kids are probably being exposed to a little more than your average family (my oldest had her own blog when she was three), but even among her friends whose parents share a single email inbox (the thought of having only one inbox myself makes me want to hide under the covers until the nightmare passes), the kids are all hanging out on Webkinz and Disney Fairies and pestering their parents about how old they have to be to get a Facebook account. While I was horrified at the demo for Disney eXtreme Digital, I’m willing to bet that she already wins hands down in a multitasking contest with Louis Gray and his “Continuous Parallel Attention.” While most of us are still learning how to manage the firehose, these kids are growing up with it, lapping it up like a baby’s bottle. Something tells me they @won’t be taking the same time we do for the navel-gazing. They’ll just want to get on with it. And for all our use of Web 2.0, and analysis of it, to them it will be as outdated as a^ typewriter. [...]

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