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There’s no such thing as a digital native
Technology is changing too rapidly for us to assume the next generation will fully understand it
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What it means to be a digital native has changed drastically because the definition of “digital” has changed too.
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Stephen Bush
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Call it the Abe Simpson principle. The cartoon patriarch, upon being told by his son Homer that he was not “with it”, responded: “I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I’m with isn’t it, and what’s it seems weird and scary to me.”
Then he warned his son: “It’ll happen to you.”
