Google Generation

Google Generation

  • Submitted By: rgullo
  • Date Submitted: 02/23/2009 7:50 PM
  • Category: English
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Ron Gullo Enc 1101 Steinberg 10 December 2008 The Google generation has significantly changed our way of processing, gathering, and storing information. This new age of technology also influences our everyday lives and social interactions. However, we are criticized for lacking intelligence, attention spans, and incapable of thinking for ourselves. These are very plausible arguments, yet there are still many positives which most people fail to realize. Our Google generation had an effect in almost every aspect of human life such as classrooms, leisure life, economy, and much more. Now in order to make a valuable argument towards our generation, a classification of this generation should be necessary. The world has classified our generation as the net, or Google generation. According to riverdeep.net, “These ‘N-Geners’ are kids who have been manipulating computer mice since an early age. While past generations made do with the telephone and television, today's generation has access to those devices and super-realistic video games, the Internet, e-mail, instant messaging, online communities, and videos and music that can be downloaded over a computer.” Scott Carlson defined us as, “academics, trend spotters, and futurists. . . They carry an arsenal of electronic devices -- the more portable the better. Raised amid a barrage of information, they are able to juggle a conversation on Instant Messenger, a Web-surfing session, and an iTunes playlist while reading Twelfth Night for homework.” Is it tangibly possible for us to indulge in our important assignments while exposing us to these multiple adjacent deviations? Information in this new age could never be easier to obtain. I remembered having to search through my textbook endlessly to seek out the information I required and had to write them down to turn in the next day in class. With a few renovations, updates to computer systems, and adding such machines to the classroom for teachers and students alike....

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