Is the Google generation the most web-literate? Possibly. The most comfortable with technology? Almost definitely. But the best at getting information? Apparently not.
Apparently young people today are too impatient and get frustrated with even the slightest delay between their impulse and it's being gratified. And apparently the disease is spreading to younger and older alike.
My son, for one, gets violently angry if his computer takes more than 30 seconds to start up. And it almost always does. I remember waiting hours for a computer to startup and I didn't even complain. That never really happened but it sounded good.
This new paper by some British institute studies these issues.
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