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Difference of Opinion: Digital Age

By Nick Hodge | April 24, 2007

It has been an excel­lent week for the ABC. The Curtin “docu-drama” gave a por­trait of a man of his time: Prime Min­is­ter John Curtin dur­ing the 1941 through 1942.

Last night, Jeff McMul­lan did a stand­ard “journ­al­istic show” wrapped as debate on new tech­no­lo­gies, and the impact on com­munity on “Dif­fer­ence of Opin­ion: Grow­ing Up in the Digital Age”. Cap­tured inthe fresh­ness of the moment, this Pod­cast cap­tured by Chris Saad of Particls. Dis­cus­sion boards on the topic are inter­est­ing to read.

Another essence is that people’s online and digital life is real. It is a part of generation-y iden­tity. The base-level mor­als and eth­ics still apply; and prob­ably more so in a world that is flat and always on.

Topics: generationy, observation, podcast, popculture, professionalgeek, virtual, web2.0 | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “Difference of Opinion: Digital Age”

  1. Dave - Lifekludger Says:
    April 24th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    Hey Uncle Nick.

    This is an inter­est­ing piece of obser­va­tion, albeit, for me, not new or surprising.

    “Another essence is that people’s online and digital life is real.”

    I find a lot of this in second Life, to dif­fer­ing degrees, even though we are talk­ing 18+ ages.

    Take-away: vir­tual does not neces­sar­ily equal unreal.

    Uncle Dave

  2. hodgenick Says:
    April 24th, 2007 at 8:23 pm

    Uncle Dave

    I thought of you when I wrote this post. More and more, it is dawn­ing on me what this digital online r/w web stuff is about — and going to be about.

    I think you and Uncle Mike got there before me, tho’ :-)

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