The original thread was based on a review of Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook. I was deeply offended by one particularly ridiculous critique of the book, and fired back with this rant. The results were too predictable even to bother summarizing, except to note that they proved my (and Borsook’s) point quite well. I have taken the liberty of fixing up the original poster’s incorrect HTML, but no actual content has been changed.
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“This techno-elite, taking sophisticated knowledge of technology for granted, has lost touch with the vast numbers of people in the world — the elderly, the poor, foreign-born — who don’t share their skills and confidence”
Being “advanced” and using double talk are very different things. Most kids can grasp very complex concepts, if they are explained to them in terms they can understand. Few can understand double talk, including most that use it.
It seems that the techno-elite these days include coffee shop clerks, kids that grow up in poverty, old ladies and foreigners.