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"Machines will do human jobs that are too boring or too dangerous for humans to do effectively. Almost everybody will do their shopping online. In the next decade, the number of people using the Internet will have risen by at least 50 million users. There will be vaccines, treatments, and cures for diseases that can't be treated or cured and vaccinated now. There will be virtually any antidote for people who are poisoned and a lot of antibiotics for people with viruses. I think there will be more pandemics like H1N1 and vaccines and cures for those illnesses. Surgeries will be much more successful than they are now and everyone will get access to these treatments."

Was müssen Kinder im Internet befürchten?

"He tells us that he watched his kids in the early 1990s and marvelled at their effortlessness with new technology. He initially thought that his kids were prodigies, and then discovered that all their friends were equally fluent. They were effortless because they’d grown up digital."

"Trotzdem lädt eine Initiative namens DNAdigital einige von den jungen Leuten zu Kongressen ein und macht Veranstaltungen, um dem Rest der Gesellschaft zu zeigen, was die jungen Leute denken und fühlen. Gegenüber Wirtschaftslenkern und Bildungspolitikern stehen sie bei Tagungen Rede und Antwort. Man hat den Eindruck, sie werben für eine gesellschaftliche Gruppe, die wenig Verständnis und Akzeptanz genießt. Einige unterstellen ihnen besondere mentale Leistungen – andere vermuten genau das Gegenteil – eine mangelnde Konzentrationsfähigkeit und Defizite im sozialen Verhalten."

"Qualitativ-ethnografischer Ansatz bei dem von April bis Juni 2009 29 Jugendliche zwischen 13 und 22 Jahren zu ihrem Freizeitverhalten, Intensität der Internetnutzung, Interessen und Bedürfnissen im Netz, Sozialen Netzwerken, Freunde und Daten im Netz sowie Marken im Netz befragt wurden. 11 von ihnen wurden im Rahmen einer teilnehmenden Beobachtung in ihrer persönlichen Lebenswelt bei der Beschäftigung im Internet begleitet."

"And now there is a group coming after me, a boom of tech-savvy children who don't remember life before the Internet and who text-message nearly as much as they talk. They have even less need for good penmanship. We are witnessing the death of handwriting."

"There are some things in this world that will never be forgotten, this week’s 40th anniversary of the moon landing for one. But Moore’s Law and our ever-increasing quest for simpler, smaller, faster and better widgets and thingamabobs will always ensure that some of the technology we grew up with will not be passed down the line to the next generation of geeks."

"This is the full copy of the research note written by Matthew Robson (aged 15 years and seven months), an intern at Morgan Stanley, which caused a stir after it was published by the bank"