At Home Among 1’s and 0’s

In the book Born Digital, the authors John Palfrey and Urs Gasser talk about the differences between generations of tech users.  People who were born in the 1980’s and later are dubbed digital natives.  The creators of much of the infrastructure that we now depend on are called digital immigrants.

I’m not sure that the divide is so clear-cut for everyone as there are people of all ages that either get it or they don’t. Still, I find myself nodding in agreement at a comment on a blog called Recovering Journalist. A commenter riffs off of a 60’s slogan, “Don’t trust anyone over 30 to make your digital product a success.” Too many times, newspapers wind up publishing print in pixels and not content that takes advantage of the full power of the web.