tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514796601118085561.post1777388953164550578..comments2009-08-03T18:59:28.017-07:00Mark Bullenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13566965958559257348noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514796601118085561.post-83138202368327736152009-08-03T18:59:28.017-07:002009-08-03T18:59:28.017-07:00Hello Jon,<br /><br />Thank you for your note on Wim Veen. <br /><br />Cindyhoonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07420717810111331458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514796601118085561.post-13781186837025507032009-08-03T11:53:32.719-07:002009-08-03T11:53:32.719-07:00Born before 1982. Born-again digital.Glenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02577582335502224163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514796601118085561.post-51922892725844957372009-07-31T07:53:28.816-07:002009-07-31T07:53:28.816-07:00<i>What I would like to see is, how all these - need to have constant feedback - do to the brains.</i><br /><br />There is at least one academic I know of ... Wim Veen atthe Technical University of Delft .. who has done about a decade&#39;s worth of research into the effects of multi-tasking and interacting with content and people in a hyperlinked digital context etc.on cognition and the neuroplasticity of the brain, etc.<br /><br />He published a book titled &quot;Homo Zappiens&quot; outlining his research and finding, in November 2006 if I recall correctly.jonhusbandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13103650592174391848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-514796601118085561.post-24349511696711575902009-07-26T07:25:05.093-07:002009-07-26T07:25:05.093-07:00Here are my defence: I am 58 therefore not born after 1982!<br /><br />- ability to effectively multitask LoL. Ask any mother age 80 and over, they would tell you that they used to cook, feed, iron clothes with charcoal iron, wash clothes by hands, grow vegetables at garden patch, etc. etc. without the help of internet, PC, IPod etc. etc. IF these are not multi-tasking, what is? <br /><br />- the need for immediate and frequent feedback - would that makes the Interget Gen anymore effective than us the oldies? How often do we see a young man and young woman, on the phone, calling someone at the supermarket - Honey, beef or chicken for dinner? Would you call that efficient? I call that waste of time AND inability to make SIMPLE decision. I would just buy based on what I can afford, freshness, the less time it takes me to prepare -- and say: here is your dinner. Eat it!. <br /><br />- strong preference for social interaction - huh?? hiding behind the PC, talking to &#39;invisible net citizen&#39; or writing to one like what I am doing now??? While my cats are meowing and asking for food and some social contact? Is that what we call sociable? <br /><br />- a preference for teamwork - LoL. Really??? I only see me, me, me individualistic characteristic. I don&#39;t call going to a flashmob, or signing up with Facebook, Twitter, or any other social networkign products as PREFERENCE for TEAMWORK. Come on people. <br /><br />a strong social conscience - well, I would like to see more respect for older folks such as myself, and not puff us off as they cannot learn anything from us JUST because we are old and not Internet GEN. <br /><br />What I would like to see research done more on HOW internet and all these technologies have destroyed social interaction among people. It is always very easy to write when you do not have to look into the eyes of the person. Such as what I am doing now. What I wrote here, the tone, the guts are not what I normally do with REAL people standing before me.There are many good things about the ease of internet, BUT internet created a generation of careless and rude people. <br /><br />What I would like to see is, how all these - need to have constant feedback - do to the brains. I would like to see what would happen to these individuals IF they are lost in the jungles and have no access to satelites (hence no iPod, no Twitter, no CONNECTIONS to the outside world) and what would they do with all these NEEDS of constant feedback. And I would like to see how these individuals deal with &#39;critical thinking&#39; that is ONE very basic needs for leaders. I am happy I am old and soon would be dead. Looking how many of the young folks that I have to deal with work, I shudders to think how this world would be like under their care. <br /><br />Here is one answer I heard just few days ago on CNN (I think). A young girl from China (or was it Indonesia) was asked: what is the greatest invention? The answer is INTERNET. OF course. Not computer. Not the phone networks. I rest my case.hoonghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07420717810111331458noreply@blogger.com