[ExI] Recent Slashdot comments

[Bryan Bishop]

There has been a recent outbreak of insightfulness on Slashdot, after 
the pirate stories last month and now the recent internet prank 
article, the one about an FBI agent wanting a "better, more secure 
internet", and then the one about Gershenfeld and personal fabrication 
(RepRap, MNT, 3D printers, bacterial nanotech), I remember this:

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/25/147200
> If the gap between teachers and pupils is as large as the one between
> parents and children then it is no surprise that todays teachers 
> really don't know what to do with the technology savvy generation that 
> is about to supplant them. Schools haven't got a clue about the
> internet, how to use it and what it could bring them. Pupils are 
> running circles around their supposed betters and are showing earlier 
> in life a degree of independence that teachers wished they had had 
> when they were young. Todays youth are so connected using cellphones, 
> the net and social networking that they are as alien from the previous 
> generation as any that has ever been.      

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=469244&cid=22583054
> The transition will be difficult. The digital immigrants with
> extensive investigative experience and the digital natives who are 
> novices in their profession will have to cooperate and exchange their 
> knowledge and wisdom, and in the meantime, some criminals will slip 
> through the cracks. That's the price of progress.    

Maybe there's a way that we can help ... ease the transistion?

- Bryan
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Bryan Bishop
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