If you think the generation gap couldn’t get any wider, consider the gaping chasm that lightening fast advances in technology have created between today’s 38-year-olds and 13-year-olds. Kids are working with technical tools for sharing and creating that are more powerful than anything older generations could have imagined. But unlike many adults, kids don’t see technology dictating lifestyle. Rather, today’s youth expect lifestyle to drive technology innovation… at breakneck speed.

As for their opinions on technology from previous generations: BBC News recently decided to hand a 13-year-old a Sony Walkman (the cassette player vintage from 30 years back) for his own personal technology review. The results are hilarious and illuminating…

 “It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but later I discovered that it was in fact used to switch between two different types of cassette.”

Read the entire article here.

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