Grown Up Digital by Tapscott part 3

Part three of Tapscott’s book, Grown Up Digital was all about our generation today and how messed up it is and to be honest, it was sad. He said the net generation is inheriting a mess which I believe is very true, it is hard to keep up with all the new technologies, things happening with the government  are getting more intense and violent, and people are falling way behind. Not only are people falling behind because only a little more than half the population has internet access, but more and more people are going hungry/thirsty and do not even have more than a dollar in their pocket per day.  Everything that Tapscott talks about in this part of the book relates a lot to the position in which our current government is right now. The way our money is being spent is not the way it should be, and nuclear weapons are pretty much all around the world and could easily get into the hands of a terrorist. On a better note there was a quote that I read by the Comedian, Jon Stewart who was doing a stand up for graduate students. It is a fairly long quote but it is very true and puts some humor into our situation. He says “Let’s talk about the real world for a moment. I guess this is as good a time as any. I don’t really know how to put this, so I’ll be blunt. We broke it. Please don’t be mad. I know we were supposed to bequeath to the next generation a world better than the one we were handed. So, sorry. I don’t know if you’ve been following the news lately, but it just kinda got away from us. Somewhere between the gold rush of easy Internet profits and an arrogant sense of endless empire, we heard kind of a pinging noise, and uh, then the damn thing just died on us. So I apologize.”

I also believe that this new generation is making our education a little more challenging and especially harder for college graduates to find the right career for them when they are out of school. The education system has gotten so much more online-based where students need to have access to computers or their own laptop in order to turn in school work or even take quizzes for their classes. Even though things are more complicated, our generation is adapting to the new technologies very quickly, in fact the previous generation barley can keep up with the amount of knowledge our generation has for this technology.