Article 1 - Disagreement

Well I actually agree with this article and believe that young people can bring alot more to this technological age and that people should maybe stop categorising them as having "no knowledge of the past". People believe power shoudl belong to people with more experience and more knowledge but why should this be the case. The fact that the terms digital native and digital immigrant have been coined in the first place is because young people have come to have more power in a certain part of our society and now others, digital immigrants, dont like this. It needs to be said that if digital natives were not allowed to flourish then where would we be now? Would I be even writing this critique?would the internet even be as popular as it is?would we still be slugging over books for all our research needs? The fact is that no I probably would'nt be writing now. This is why I dont understand why some people in society dont like it if the younger generation have more power, as at the end of the day, everybody is benefiting. Fast communication such as email and fax may not have been around (or not as popular)if younger people had not continued to use it. Therefore how would current businesses be run, not as effectively or efficiently im guessing.

Having said that I have to admit that i am still not completely "with it" when it comes to technology. I have asked my sister many a time how to do different things with my ipod but once she told me I did pick it up relatively easy. Now I know that if that had been my mum it would have been a completely different story. To conclude though i therefore dont disargee with his argument but in fact do strongly agree with it.