My daughter’s worldview and life will be shaped in very deliberate ways by technologies like the Kindle and the new magical high-tech gadgets coming out this year — Google’s Nexus One phone and Apple’s impending tablet among them. She’ll know nothing other than a world with digital books, Skype video chats with faraway relatives, and toddler-friendly video games on the iPhone. She’ll see the world a lot differently from her parents.
But these are also technology tools that children even 10 years older did not grow up with, and I’ve begun to think that my daughter’s generation will also be utterly unlike those that preceded it.
I got my first computer in 1981 a Mac11 - at 31, I was early. My son got his first computer when he was 9. He was early. My grand daughter aged 14 months routinely is on Skype.
She is part of the first generation that will know the connected world of the web from birth.
Like an immigrant to a new world, she will truly be a citizen of the web.
