Digital Nation I

Digital Nation addresses the mass availability of communication today. It starts off with a woman who describes a night in her home where every member of her family is on a different medium as she was getting dinner ready, even her very little ones. She describes this scene as all of her family being in one room, but really being in different places. This starts you thinking about how much media is a part of our lives today, and how we have become multitaskers because of it.
This idea of multitasking carries over into the education part of life with alarming changes. Students now claim to be able to be high multitaskers, especially on college campus. Experiments done on college students who are high multitaskers show that while multitasking he gets work done much slower, and can easily get distracted. These experiments are worrying scientists that we are creating people who are disorganizing their memories.
Digital media has also been completely absorbed by children, exposed at a young age to so many digital media. The time studies are done on new digital medias is almost wasted becauses once something has been discovered, its already old news and a new form has been put out. Research gets out distanced by technology because of the quick rate it advances.