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Generational Compression

by Chris Gilbey at 09:51AM (EST) on October 25, 2005 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

It used to be said that "Life Imitates Art".

Now it may be more relevant to change two letters in that propsition and say, "Life Imitates IT".

This is part of the change to generation compression. We are functioning more like computers do and less like humans did. When I was a teenager, I did my homework in silence, got the job done and moved on to the entertainment in the house - radio, TV, books. Now my teenage daughter does her homework while watching TV. As IPTV becomes the norm, she and her peers will no doubt do their homework while wathcing TV and participating in an IM chat session about some other totally separate topic. So we now have the concept of multi-tasking moving out of the IT realm and into the home.

My business partner, Richard's son, also a teenager, plays multiplayer online games while talking on the phone with his friends, also in the game. They morph into each others' online characters as they play. Multi-tasking multiple personas.

I blogged last week about generational compression in China. It occurred to me though that this same thing is happening in the west too. The sociological and business implications of this are pretty important - because there is this acceleration of social change that is in step with the software age. But the legal frameork that we live in is still (perhaps rightly) stuck in the groove of the hardware age. Somewhere along the line this is going to mean we may have to deal with hardware crash.

How do we prevent that? And is this perception correct or not?

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