PEW-rapport: Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives

Het is een hele boterham om door te nemen, maar zeer de moeite. Meer dan 1000 experten geven hun mening over hoe jongeren de komende 8 jaar zullen omgaan met technologie en de hypergeconnecteerde wereld waarin ze opgroeien. De introductie van dit nieuwe rapport:

Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in a different way from their elders, according to a new survey of technology experts.

Many of the experts surveyed by Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center and the Pew Internet Project said the effects of hyperconnectivity and the always-on lifestyles of young people will be mostly positive between now and 2020. But the experts in this survey also predicted this generation will exhibit a thirst for instant gratification and quick fixes, a loss of patience, and a lack of deep-thinking ability due to what one referred to as “fast-twitch wiring.”