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We need to Save the Analog Refugees
By Nick Hodge | July 17, 2008
Marc Prensky invented the concept of Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants, now used by all and sundry to describe generational change.
I would like to extend this into a concept of Analog Refugees.
These are people who have been forced to leave their Analog world and forced into the digital realm.
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July 19th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Another category would be those of us in the digital realm who avoid anything that has DRM in it. (Keeps life simple ... kinda like analogue).
July 19th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
I'm an analog refugee trapped in the body of a digital immigrant trying to be a digital native
Seriously though, I totally get what you're saying. Every time I try help an old relative with technology problems. Some just don't get it and deep down I'm sure they wish their old world hadn't been conquered by an incomprehensible enemy
July 21st, 2008 at 1:16 am
Okay, well - how 'analog' are we talking here ? Cuneiform writing was a set of shapes, but it may have easily been representations of ones and zeros, on and off, black and white...Morse code was dots and dashes - are we speaking of smoke signals and semaphore ? What form is this "save" - are we speaking about a historical museum ? Short of eating and Shaking hands, what analog thing could improve our lives if we switched back (somehow) ?
September 6th, 2008 at 1:32 am
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