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The Impatience of the Google Generation
profBill writes "As a fifty-something professor who teaches introductory computer science, I am very aware that the twenty-somethings in my class are much more at ease with computers than any other generation. However, does that mean they are more adept at using those computers? Apparently not, according to the researchers at University College London. Their research indicates that while more adept at conducting searches, younger users also show 'impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance for any delay in satisfying their information needs'. Moreover, these traits 'are now becoming the norm for all age-groups, from younger pupils and undergraduates through to professors'. The panel makes two conclusions: That libraries (and I wonder what a library will become in the future, anyway) will have to adapt, and that the information processing skills of todays young people are lacking. Why are those skills lacking and, if they are, what can be done about it?"
uh, libraries? the only thing libraries are good for is getting articles from journals that aren't freely accessible online. and that'll be unnecessary once the copyright cartels disappear (especially the slap-in-the-face publishers that lock up publicly funded research)
Your "feelings" are irrelevant, loserboy. You do not have any capabilities over the previous generation. Your misplaced sense of superiority is fed by the fallacious perception that technical means can make up for lack of intelligence. Real research demands patience, dedication, a capability to sort and discriminate information. You lack all of these. You're nothing but an overgrown kid with an inflated ego, which will soon be burst by reality. Masturbating in your own feces while drinking your urine does not make you special, wankerboy. Bend over backwards and piss up your nostrils while we shit on your face.
Geeks are so full of shit that "beating the crap out of them" takes a whole new meaning.
You're a stich, you are!