Fact: Our generation is over stimulated by technological advancements.
We want to know everything about everything all the time. We want it instant and easy. We are the internet generation. The generation of easy access. One of my favourite quotes is taken from Fight Club: “we are the middle children of history. We have no Great War and no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war; our great depression is our lives”
Facebook and social networking (much like reality TV) is that one great happening that will go down in the history books marking our era. Facebook is our industrial revolution.
We surround our selves with instant media. Conference calls, video chat, twitter, youtube, facebook, bbm. And yet even at twenty-four I can remember a time when having a landline telephone was a luxury: when any urgent calls had to be taken at from the neighbour’s phone two doors up. Let us not forget that at one point the only way to contact someone was by sending then a letter and that could take weeks or months to reach them, if it reached them at all.
They say that our generation has gone soft. That we have no affinity for literature and philosophy. The fact is that we have the affinity we just don’t have the patience. Google is the greatest philosopher of our time. Wikipedia the greatest teacher. And online dating the most trusted cupid. We watch movies over and over, because we want to find something more in it each time. We buy dvd box sets to see the outtakes, and director’s cut. We want to learn, we just don’t want any of the jargon or bureaucracy.
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