From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 19:22:55 MDT
On Saturday, July 13, 2002 8:29 PM Colin Hales colin@versalog.com.au
wrote:
> My kids are post-Y++ (? is there any list of these labels?) generation
and I
> can tell you they won't take crap from anyone. I'm a mid-teen taxi
driver
> and I see this similarity in all of them as I truck them from one
river of
> data to another. These kids know no different. Older folks will see it
as an
> erosion, over time, of the quality of the data. My kids just see data
that's
> always been there and with content that is sampled like in a
supermarket
> with labels they are trained to see.
I don't think it has to do with a generational thing. Read enough
history and you'll become cynical too. For example, read Thucydides.
He definitely has an agenda and you can see it in almost each page of
his great work.
Someone recently said on the radio, commenting on his childhood in the
1950s, that the times weren't better. He was just younger and that, in
itself, was a good thing for him. Other than that -- and he was a
conservative commentator, so I expected him to praise the 1950s -- he
did not like them. (Notably, he did not say what time he did like...:)
Cheers!
Dan
http://uweb.superlink.net/neptune/MyWorksBySubject.html
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