The 'millennials' usher in a new era | CNET News.com:
This what sets our kids apart from most of the adult world:
[...] "'What sets millennials apart is that they use technology to push the boundaries of the values that have been associated with their generation in ways not possible before.'
By only their seventh birthday, most children in the United States will have talked on a cell phone, played a computer game and mastered a TV-on-demand device like TiVo, much to the amazement of technically challenged parents. By 13, researchers say, the same children will have gone through several software editions of instant messaging, frequented online chat rooms and downloaded their first illegal song from BitTorrent.
College-age millennials will likely own a laptop and take for granted ubiquitous broadband Internet access. They may also be intimately familiar with the feeling of 'highway hypnosis'--the ability to drive or multitask with little memory of the process of getting there.
Their inevitably short attention spans are the reason Seymour Papert of MIT's Media Lab coined the term 'grasshopper mind' five years ago, for the inclination to leap quickly from one topic to another. A mathematician and founder of artificial intelligence, Papert addressed the effects of this behavior as far back as 1995 in congressional testimony about technology and learning."[...]
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