Article: Text Generation Gap: U R 2 Old (JK)

Check out this article published by the New York Times about cell-phone use in America. “Innovation, of course, has always spurred broad societal changes,” it says. “As telephones became ubiquitous in the last century, users—adults and teenagers alike—found a form of privacy and easy communication unknown to Alexander Graham Bell or his daughters.” It discusses an area of social interaction that is increasingly of interest to me—raising children in a world that is always technologically different from that of their parents. It’s amazing to think about how different things were just fifteen or so years ago, when I was first a teenager. For us, having a pager when we first started high school was pretty darn cool. And back then, dial-up internet was the latest and greatest...