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Info Babies

Technology and the advancement of our minds create paradoxes and innovative perspectives in ethics and cultural structure. What if an invention created out of our own minds was so influential it changed the very minds that created it? The internet and the technological breakthroughs that preceded it created a rupture in standardized culture and exchanged the traditional means of acquiring knowledge and experience for a digital and instantaneous activity of leisure. This in the mirror of our children can be seen in a very drastic way, and the implications of which whirl around our brains just out of reach of its intuition. They, the ones birthed into the newest cultural assimilation, peered through the maternity ward windows and into the shining crystal screens that await them.

Children as young as five years old were reported in being more then literate when it comes to navigating and exploring internet search engines and even troubleshooting. This implies something very curious and groundbreaking when you reflect on what it means to grow up, learn, and socialize not only in America, but as a global community connected through this technology now. The parenting situation and obligations change under this new assimilation, because the amount of information and interactive activity that children love are all found in one medium. But the question that is unraveling itself does not necessarily imply the destruction of our way of life or the corruption of our youth, but does highlight a social phenomenon that will dictate future economic possibilities, technological advancement, and the future of ethics and morals. As a world community connected through the webbing of information on the internet a super culture is created.

It is now in our age that identity can be traced to a world identity, where there are far more doors of development in exposure to different cultures and ideas. This all comes back to the children that are clicking away at the keyboard and what they see and read about the world as a whole. Instead of getting their moral ideas from family traditions they integrate collected and acquired knowledge to gather a more realistic and fuller view of the world. Another aspect of this is purely historical and the consequences of which speak something a little bit more to the future of our species as a whole. It is now in action we can see the consumption of old culture and the recreated bi products of its entrails. We are experiencing a change so drastic to our society that the ones that are reluctant to change will be left in the Dark Age. It is necessary to recognize social changes like this because it is in a constant flux in which we all are participants in. The futures of ethics, technology, and social progress in general have been put on a different fluid plane that has never been seen in human history. The future is not predisposed and we the creators of our world can change it for the better or for the worse, but the conceptual recreation of the world community is at the frail finger tips of the worlds info babies.

Andy Valenzuela

Skinnie Entertainment Magazine

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