Multiple Generations for Twitter and Facebook

Michael Wesch is currently on a Skype connection into our MediaX Social Media Collaboratory workshop being taught by Howard Rheingold

(see http://mediax.stsnford.edu/WSI/collaboratory.html )

Wesch has some YouTube clips -- the one I think everyone should watch (and many have, with some 10 million downloads to date) is called "The Machine is Us/ing Us"

Compelling stuff, re why MediaX exists, and what we might profitably study. The OLPC project is a good example, but there are many, many things -- the use of checkout counter automatic cameras which might have an infinite focal plane, the use of in-home monitors for medical aid that might get the oldster committed to an institution earlier than might be desired/apropos, etc.

Where does this go? Is there a predictable endpoint? How many generations of Media Users will we have (our grandkids are adept at things we scarcely imagine, let alone adopt and use. Today the fourteen year olds know MUCH more than the nineteen year olds seemingly; the eleven year olds are excellent at stuff the fourteen years old have not yet learned. And if you're (gasp) over thirty, Jerry Rubin called it at Berkeley (tho he borrowed the phrase from Jack Weinberger apparently) -- never trust anyone over thirty!