Ethan Z reports a BIF-5 talk by Don Tapscott about learning from your kids, who said he
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was invited to spend an hour on national TV, surfing the web. His son refused to watch the show – when they talked about it later, his son said, "That’s about as interesting as watching you change channels on the TV." His daughter pitched in, pointing out that the refrigerator is also a technology – "We could watch Dad surfing the fridge – here’s some content: it’s meatloaf!"Ethan reports that Tapscott concludes thus:
“If you spend 24 hours a week being a passive participant, consuming tv – as Baby Boomers did – you get a certain sort of brain.” If you spend those hours searching, researching and building connections, you get a very different brain.
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