[WEB4LIB] Re: "Generation shifts" and technology

[Sloan, Bernie]

As follow-up to the recent "generations" thread on Web4Lib, the cover story of the new Time magazine is about yet another generation, the "Twixters":

http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101050124/ 

Bernie Sloan

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From: Drew, Bill [mailto:drewwe at MORRISVILLE.EDU] 
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 7:51 PM
To: Sloan, Bernie; Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: [WEB4LIB] Re: "Generation shifts" and technology

Karen and Bernie both make very good points.  I am one  the space age children who went to school after Sputnik was launched.  After high school I went into the Navy and was an electronics technician during the transition from tubes to trassitors and integrated circuits. I have been using computers in one form or another since 1975 when I used punch cards to create APL programs for a population biology course I was taking.  In 1979 I worked for National Planning Data Corporation digitizing county and SMA maps using a mincomputer system call AutoTroll.  When I was at graduate school at Drexel in 1984, I used the first generation of the Apple MacIntosh as well as the second generation of the IBM PC.  I sometimes find I have much more in common with my 17 year old son than I do with those in my own gneration when it comes to attitudes towards using computers and other digital technologies.
 
Bill Drew
drewwe at morrisville.edu