In any case, I applaud Venezuela now for actually paying attention to this kind of thing. Think about how many other issues they have to deal with, yet they still managed to account for stuff like this
It has already begun according to some. There are anthropologists that report this among kids today. They develop a degree of multitasking that grown ups can't understand (umpteen open Messenger conversations while surfing, doing homework, listening to music, sms'ing, and God knows what).
From this article:
Kiel said children growing up with instant messaging and other technologies interact with the world in new ways.
"The TV is on. The stereo is on. The kids are instant messaging and doing their homework," she said. "Psychologists will probably debate for the next 20 years whether multitasking is good or bad.
"They're using technology to socialize and do their homework. Then they ask each other questions about assignments, and they'll post a question on their blogs (online journals) if the kids they want to ask aren't online. There's a 14-year-old girl who socializes on IM, surfs the Web, updates her own Web site using self-taught HTML skills, and she's on her mobile phone and she's doing her homework."
Kiel said the girl gets good grades in school. "It's become part of who these kids are," she said.
Somebody using a camera cell phone nearby? In the locker room perhaps? Sure you are not 'on'? Progress in micro camera gadgets and wireless technology will keep us "always on" in more ways than one. Look at this wireless pen cam. And with blogs going the way of live audio and video feeds... Instead of Big Brother we get gazillions of networked Little Brothers:)
Ever read "The Light of Other Days" by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clark?
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yeah.. like cracking down hard on dissenters. and public/media protests against increasingly antidemocratic authoritarian rule.
We really should be careful who we applaud.
From this article: Kiel said children growing up with instant messaging and other technologies interact with the world in new ways.
"The TV is on. The stereo is on. The kids are instant messaging and doing their homework," she said. "Psychologists will probably debate for the next 20 years whether multitasking is good or bad.
"They're using technology to socialize and do their homework. Then they ask each other questions about assignments, and they'll post a question on their blogs (online journals) if the kids they want to ask aren't online. There's a 14-year-old girl who socializes on IM, surfs the Web, updates her own Web site using self-taught HTML skills, and she's on her mobile phone and she's doing her homework."
Kiel said the girl gets good grades in school. "It's become part of who these kids are," she said.
Ever read "The Light of Other Days" by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clark?
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