I feel somewhat annihilated with the latest concept of being referred to, with all the rest of computer users, as 'digital natives', people who navigate through Internet. I have been called all sorts of things: unemployed, self-employed, consumer, client, customer, subject, citizen, teacher, model, patient, voter, user, but 'digital native'?
I guess it's not meant to be degrading or disrespectful, just means that we are part of the generation that's born to, brought up with, or simply having been caught off-guard by the unavoidable wave of modern trends that sweeps up and carries off by the digital revolution. According to the Association Press in New York, Marc Prensky is the father of this denomination, in opposition to 'digital immigrants'.
This writer and author of didactic video games, sustained that those born in the digital era - Digital Homosapiens employ technical resources in the natural manner almost innate, different from those born in the analogical era, who are obliged to immigrate to the digital world, who use the new resources with the inheritance of the older technology. Much Like one learning a new language as an adult: however fluent, always exist some accent compared with the native speaker.
There's another kind, me for instance, that are practically illiterate in anything technical or technological, not even qualified as digital homosapiens. What are we? Digital Apes?
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