Google CEO Eric Schmidt Discusses Technology's Impact on Younger Generation
Ravi Nagarajan writes:
Many of us still remember going to the library, finding books using a card catalog, and carrying stacks of books home. High technology involved looking through old newspapers and magazines using microfiche. Wikipedia, every student’s favorite reference source*, did not exist. It is easy to imagine how much time could have been saved and how much more could have been accomplished with access to today’s internet!
*Comment from ResourceShelf
We wonder how many other "favorite" resources students would have and use (via their local school, public, or academic library) if they knew they were available in the first place and using them is much easier, faster, and efficient than they were just a couple of years ago?
In the brief video clip shown above, Google CEO Eric Schmidt talks about how technology impacts the lives of younger people and whether the overall quality of education will be improved or hurt by instant access to information. Mr. Schmidt points out that many aspects of modern technology have raised the bar and improved the quality of the young people hired at Google. However, he is also concerned that long form reading may be on the decline since media is often consumed in much smaller portions. This raises the important question of whether the internet may be creating a generation with knowledge that is a mile wide but only an inch deep.
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