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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?"
i'd rtfa but that page is taking forever to load.
It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
Ah, you must be part of the "I'm not part of a generation" generation. A post-hippie, basically.
Who ever wrote the article is obviously jealous of the fact that back in his day he had to hand write his plagiarisms and couldn't copy and paste.
Nah, just wait until we're in our 60's and 70's, and we can rename ourselves the "Greatest Generation." Since we'll be old and annoying, people will cut us slack and let us do that.
Bah.. You're doing it the hard way; almost all my thesis was written^W found via Ask Slashdot.
Proof by very large bribes. QED.
Ah, you must be going for one of these degree programs:
BS - Bullshit
MS - More Shit
PhD - Piled High and Deep
-mcgrew
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
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