I read a study a while ago that was conducted
with 12-14 year old young girls, and their daily communications habits.
This study group averaged 6-8 hours of "on line" time per day - between
Facebook, twitter, texting, on and on.
The study itself was
very interesting, but one of the little girls quotes struck me - she
said: "when I don't have my phone, I am not sure who I am".
It seems to me we
have already moved beyond the "digital natives" and now have a
generation of "cloud citizens". or "cloudizens". Yes, I coined that
term.
Cloudizens see themselves as a group of consciousness -
and no longer individuals. They vet everything to their group. I have no
idea what this portends, but it seems to me that this thinking is
closer in thinking to the hunter / gatherer period (tight knit groups)
than the agricultural and industrial age.
"For first we use machines, then we wear machines, then we become machines."
Kim William Gordon
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