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  dorpus, 31 Jan 2005 @ 11:26am

  
  

  Internet and Epidemiology

  Just wait till epidemiologists get their claws on internet usage studies, which shows that certain ethnic groups or socioeconomic cohorts suffer from lower internet skills, therefore decreased economic opportunities. Then there will be massive government intervention, internet regulatory commissions, e-mail taxes, and licenses for internet use.
  
  Even the most rabid free-market ideologue will, I think, agree that restrictions on tobacco advertising toward children is a good thing. The next step could be restrictions on advertising of fattening foods, given that the food industry has turned so many of us into pigs that drain vast health care resources and negatively impact the economy.
  
  

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  Anonymous Coward, 31 Jan 2005 @ 11:55am

  
  

  No Subject Given

  ...attention spam...

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  Schleifnet, 31 Jan 2005 @ 1:20pm

  
  

  just talking about this

  This weekend i was discussing 8th graders and the internet with a junoir high teacher/network admin here. he said that though they know how to get online, they really don't know how to "use" the net. his class is about using search engines to do research and he has to force his students to do actual net research instead of google a term and use the first result as the answer to the question. he said its amazing how naive his students are.

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  Anonymous Coward, 31 Jan 2005 @ 2:12pm

  
  

  No Subject Given

  Yes of course!
  
  They are the last generation with minds unpolluted by post-american-spirit-propaganda and while they made less wealth for themselves than their parents, the infrastructure for the current generation makes it impossible for them to acquire the skills needed to rank as high as their parents did when we compare skills accross generations or the world.
  
  current news has http://www.cnn.com/2005/EDUCATION/01/31/students.amendment.ap/index.html .. but speak to any interviewer or school counselor. You may laugh at me using the word propaganda, but when you hear these people use it, you might get a little freightened.
  
  After all, when the current trends point us towards a future as shown here http://www.adcritic.com/interactive/view.php?id=5927 you, as a kid, might just infer that there's no point in being savy.
  

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    Anonymous Coward, 31 Jan 2005 @ 6:09pm

    
    

    Re: No Subject Given

    Hahahaha. And laugh I will.
    Rather, maybe there's no point in learning how to spell "frightened" or "savvy" or why punctuation may have been invented.

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  Matt Turner, 1 Feb 2005 @ 8:04am

  
  

  ahh Nielson

  I'm only young, though past teenage-hood.
  It amazes me to think Nielson was making really ugly pages that can't validate to the standards they adhere to, probably since I was eating plastiscene at playgroup.
  
  http://www.nngroup.com/
  http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.nngroup.co m/

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  Terry Heaton, 1 Feb 2005 @ 9:22am

  
  

  Congratulations

  on an excellent observation.

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  itchyfish, 1 Feb 2005 @ 3:25pm

  
  

  Just another cycle

  This is just another cycle as this generation grows up with the technology being ubiquitous. It's just another tool for them, they don't care how it works. Much like any sort of tech that comes out. Like electricity, cars, etc. How many people can tell me how a combustion engine works? Or what exactly happens when you flip that light switch on? If they're not in the 'industry' many people don't know or care. Why should they care? They flip the switch, the light comes on, what more do they need to know? These kids simply treat the internet like we treat other tech we take for granted.

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