Generation Dumbstein

By now, most of us reasonable people have figured out that ‘Generation Einstein’ is just a silly term invented by elderly people who were impressed by the apparent agility with computers and other gadgets of their ‘kidz’. It turns out that they aren’t multitasking at all but just constantly distracted, and only the more sensible kidz are capable to turn off their distractions when they have something important to do like studying for a test or listen to a teacher (he said grinding his teeth).

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Don does

With the publication of Don Tapscott's new book on the Net Generation ("Grown up Digital"), I could write "Go and read this book", but it might end up as a quote on the Dutch edition of this book (which I don't aspire!), while leaving out the second part of the quote "...because it is flawed in so many ways that it serves as a good textbook on how NOT to present your arguments in a (scientific) debate."

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