
Growing Up Digital
by Don Tapscott · first published 1997
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This ground-breaking book not only introduced the phrase 'the Net Generation" to our language, but brilliantly defined why the future will be ruled by Net Culture. Tapscott clearly illustrates all the ways in which the Net Generation will influence the future. His positioning of this group helped inspire many leading companies including Hewlett-Packard to rethink their business strategies. Like H-P, any company that wants to succeed will have to reach the Net Generation now - and this is the book that explains who they are and how they're reshaping the way the world works, plays, learns, and d
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Books like "Growing Up Digital" by Don Tapscott (that introduced the term "Digital Natives" IIRC) were very influential. Disclaimer: I own a copy from the office, but I never more than skimmed it. Like most business books, it's a…
on “Teens don't have a clue about IT? (2016)” ↗When a professor at Rice walked us through Don Tapscott's book Growing up Digital in 2001, we had such an optimistic view of the future. Don highlighted how with broadcast media in the 20th century, the viewer had little choice on what to watch. Now that the internet was available…
on “Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds” ↗