Grown up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World by Don Tapscott
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- Pub. Date: October 2008
- 384pp
- Sales Rank: 13,551
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: October 2008
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
- Format: Hardcover, 384pp
- Sales Rank: 13,551
- ISBN-13: 9780071508636
- ISBN: 0071508635
- Edition Number: 1
Synopsis
"A fascinating look at how young people are transforming our culture. The bottom line: An insightful, data-rich analysis with broad implications for managers, marketers, and politicians." -BusinessWeek
"In the past two years, Don Tapscott has overseen a $4.5m study of nearly 8,000 people in 12 countries born between 1978 and 1994. In Grown Up Digital he uses the results to paint a portrait of this generation that is entertaining, optimistic, and convincing."-The Economist
"Grown Up Digital paints a generally encouraging picture . . . an optimistic view of how humans are evolving to engage with technology. Literally evolving: Mr. Tapscott cites scientific research that people who use digital media from a young age have different brain development than those who don't. . . . Republicans and Democrats, conservatives and liberals alike, can draw lessons about the expectations of young people raised on real-time access to deep layers of information." -The Wall Street Journal
MEET THE NET GENERATION.
“No one has been a more informed commentator on the transformative impact of the digital age than Don Tapscott.”
—Brad Anderson, Chairman & CEO, Best Buy
“Don Tapscott provides an exciting roadmap to surviving and thriving in the Connected Era.”
—Michael S. Dell, Chairman & CEO, Dell
“Don Tapscott nails it. A must read.”
—Richard Florida, author, Who’s Your City? and The Rise of the Creative Class
“For anyone leading a talent-based organization,Grown Up Digital is an essential read.”
—William D. Green, Chairman & CEO, Accenture
“The first guide to the land of the Net Generation that should be read both by visitors and residents alike.”
—Nicholas Negroponte, Founder & Chairman, One Laptop Per Child
“In Grown Up Digital, Tapscott uniquely shows how to harvest the big contributions this Net Generation has to offer.”
—Frederick W. Smith, Chairman, President & CEO, FedEx
“Don Tapscott is one of the world's leading cyber gurus.”
—Al Gore
Biography
Don Tapscott is Chairman of the nGenera Innovation Network and an adjunct professor of management at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. He is an international bestselling author or coauthor of eleven books, including Wikinomics, Paradigm Shift, and The Digital Economy. Link in with the net generation at grownupdigital.com.
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Thoughtful decoding of the Net Generationby RolfDobelli
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June 29, 2009: In 1997, Don Tapscott wrote Growing Up Digital, an extensively researched inquiry into how growing up immersed in digital technology changed a generation. Now, he returns to this question, exploring what has happened as that generation and its technology have matured. Tapscott addresses numerous concerns and delves into accusations commonly voiced about this "New Generation." He generally finds that the insults are without merit. In fact, he is almost a cheerleader for the digital generation (or "Net Gen," as he calls it). The book reads quickly, especially considering that it is based on a $4 million, multiyear research project including nearly 10,000 interviews. Where Tapscott shows his supportive research, he is highly persuasive. When he wanders into personal positions, his reasoning is less compelling. getAbstract suggests his comprehensive report to a wide range of readers: all marketers and futurists, anyone interested in cyber-culture and any human resources professionals who wonder how to integrate Net Gen into the workforce.
Grown Digital: Tapscott's Worship of a Generationby Booknut62
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May 04, 2009: As I read Don Tapscott's blather about what he calls the Net Generation, I could not shake the fact that this individual literally "worships" everything about the generation of young people who have found themselves entangled in cell phones, computers and who knows what technologically. His "eight norms" about the Net Generation basically describes what everyone would really like to experience. For example, ideal one: Freedom. He states thet "Net Geners want to be able to choose when and where they want to work." Who doesn't? The reality is that most of us often have to make choices and settle for less appealing alternatives. What about his second norm for the Net Geners? He states that Net Geners want to personalize and customize things the way they want them. I imagine if you were to ask any one outside the Net Generation they would want the same. Perhaps the only difference is that Tapscott's Net Geners demand it. I think this use to be called "being self-centered." Then there is Tapscott's boast that the Net Geners' demand for integrity. In the same paragraphs Tapscott describes a generation that sees nothing wrong with downloading music and not paying for it. Is that not stealing? Not according to the Net Generation. No, I do not think Mr. Tapscott accurately paints a picture of this generation who has "grown uo digital." If he had, he would be forced to say they are "just like all of us." If he had done that, then he couldn't sell his books. The bottom line is, Don Tapscott really doesn't present anything we do not already know. Whether you call today's younger generation the "Net Generation" or "Digital Natives" they are still the same as young people a generation ago.
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