
November 26, 2008
Online security guru Bruce Schneier thinks that the Internet is the biggest contributor to the cultural divide between old and young since the 1950s:
"The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll. We're now witnessing one aspect of that generation gap: the younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. Until our CEOs blog, our Congressmen Twitter, and our world leaders send each other LOLcats – until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers – we aren't fully an information age society."
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