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From time to time one has read various members of the list hypothesize how the digital generation (e.g. those who grew up with the internet and the rest as a part of their baseline understanding of reality) will impact the adoption of electronic record keeping. Over the weekend I came across and article in the New York Times that described some research on college students in the digital generation.  While it did  not address their attitude or approach to record keeping it did provide some revealing insights about their communication styles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/04/education/edlife/arthur-levine-discusses-the-new-generation-of-college-students.html?ref=edlife&_r=0

What the author is basically saying is that they are great with technology but not so good with face to face communications. This reinforces the conclusions of the MIT Psychologist Sherry Turkle made in her book: Alone Together.  You can find a bit more about her views on this at the following site
http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/27/opinion/turkle-ted-technology/index.html

To be fair - another way of looking at this is that those of the digital era simply have radically different ways of communicating than their parents and grandparents.  After all if dogs could speak that would consider people nose blind and wonder about their pitiful existence of not being able to perceive the world in which they live.


David B. Gaynon
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