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I think it is
nonsensical,
foolish and in-
sufferably arrogant
to suggest that a historical
figure would vote or argue a certain way on a mod-
ern question, a question of which the individual in
view never considered nor made any pronounce-
ments. To try to extrapolate from what they did say
Digital Natives and Digital Nomads - New Tribes of the Internet Age
by Albert Mohler “kinetic elite”, a term coined by the
Observers of cultural Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas for
change in America have assumed high-net-worth individuals who
for some time now that the vast work out of hotel lobbies, airport
technological advances of the lounges and their expensive brief-
digital age would shape the world- cases.
views of coming generations. That So the “kinetic elite” live
future is our present as the gen- and work in a digital environment,
eration of youth and young adults armed with technology and crea-
now shaping the culture of busi- ture comforts. They can work any-
ness and higher education is in full where WiFi access will allow. That
technological overdrive. intense person working beside you
Writing in The Times [Lon- at a table in the local coffee shop
don], Fleur Britten tells of a class may well me working on contract
of “Digital Nomads” who dwell in with a firm in London about a
coffee shops and wherever wire- project in New York that will be
less hotspots are found. These new funded out of Dubai. Welcome
workers are a professional class to the world of the Digital No-
that needs no office and have noth- mads. They can live and work
ing but a digital address. They sim- almost anywhere, but tend to be Digital Natives represent a gen-
ply do not need the superstructure concentrated in larger numbers in eration that thinks in terms of the
of the old economy. locales where the so-called creative Internet and associated technolo-
Ditching the office is the class is also concentrated -- in large gies as a default mode, and their
most modern way to operate these metropolitan areas and in univer- on-line personas are as important to
days, it seems. Punchin culture is sity towns. them as the persona they project in
out – a surgical attachment to a Similarly, John Palfrey of face-to-face contact.
laptop and a mobile phone, and a the Harvard Law School has been As “Born Digital,” a Har-
willingness to travel, are in. So, as working on a project to consider vard Magazine article explains:
BlackBerry sales surge and the WiFi the “Digital Natives” -- the genera- One of the digital native’s
cloud swirls around the country, tion of younger Americans who are primary traits is an extensive on-
public spaces are increasingly perhaps more at home in the digital line persona. “[Their] identity is
sprinkled with computers, busi- world than in the “real” world expressed through both off-line and
ness-speak and spiralling caffeine around them. on-line media,” explains Palfrey.
habits. Meanwhile, the really suc- Writing with co-author Urs “And there’s not much of a distinc-
cessful are being referred to as the Glasser, Palfrey suggests that these tion in the digital (continued pg. 9)
• What needs can be dealt with later today or in the • Know your skills and limitations.
coming week?
• What assignments need to be given, and to whom? • Don’t take over a crisis situation unless asked.
• What resources are required to meet this need? • Don’t divulge confidences.
• What long-term needs should we consider and plan • Don’t say, “I know how you feel.”
for?
• Don’t try to defend God or explain why circumstanc-
Crises are not always tragic and negative. Some are es happen.
exciting and fulfilling, such as the birth of a child or a
child’s graduation from high school or college. But ev- • Don’t offer help you cannot provide.
ery crisis is a turning point, a time when friends and
fellow Christians should respond in appropriate ways • Don’t offer specialized help that you are not equipped
to meet specific needs. In meeting needs, we let them to give.
know that Jesus cares for them as well.
• Don’t get in the way of emergency personnel.
Before jumping into the middle of a crisis, make sure
you are prepared. Some well-meaning efforts have cre- A good rule of thumb may be something this simple: Do
ated more harm than good when the people responding unto others as we would have them do unto you. The
create confusion or fail to say or do the right thing. Here Golden Rule can be a two-way street, too, as we never
are some tips for how to respond effectively during a know when crisis will come into our own homes.•
crisis.
ANNOUNCEMENTS (digital natives cont.) native’s mind between these two.” Digi-
tal natives pick photographs for their on-line personas
on social-networking sites with the same care with which
they pick their clothes each morning. They go on line to
reveal rather than conceal themselves.
May 18-24 The revealing rather than concealing dynamic
Associational Emphasis Week is something most observers seem to agree is genuinely
new. As Palfrey observes, “it’s the extent to which they
reveal themselves that baffles the uninitiated, most of
Please look for your packet in the mail. whom--with different attitudes toward personal privacy-
Packet includes NAMB poster, bulletin -would never think of publishing their phone numbers
inserts and special offering envelopes. or home addresses (let alone a photographic record of a
Thank you for your participation! Saturday-night bender) on the Internet.”
These Digital Natives are young -- some are very
young -- and there is a widespread concern that they
need both direction and protection.
Musical Ministry Opportunity There is also a sense that older generations are
not even aware of the extent to which many young lives
This from our Green Valley Bible Chapel
are lived on-line:
I was wondering if any of our local churches might have Palfrey points to parents and educators, rather
someone they might loan to us sort of as a musical than legislators, as children’s best guides to the often
missionary? We would shower this person with a lot hazardous terrain of the digital world. But parents and
of love and some gas money. This person would need educators, to be effective, must engage with that world
to play guitar or keyboard as well as lead us in singing and understand how young people behave in it. For
to our Lord. instance, while conducting a survey of study habits,
Contact Jerry McCullah • jmccullah@csbc.com Palfrey was unable to find a single digital native whose
first step, when assigned a research paper, was toward a
library. Instead, students typed their topic into a Google
search bar, scrolled down to the reference in Wikipedia
May 31st at FBC Hesperia (an on-line encyclopedia edited by its readers), read the
9280 Maple Ave., Hesperia, CA 92345 entry, and then followed the links to learn more. “The
only variant I’ve heard to that,” says Palfrey, “is typ-
9:00 am-12:00 noon (registration begins at 8:30) ing en.wikipedia.org and going straight to Wikipedia.”
$15 per person (includes workbook) Whether or not Wikipedia is a credible source,
For more information or tickets contact: teachers need to know that their
Dave Felts, (760) 244-4109 ext. 201 students consult it before they
or dfelts@fbch.org can pres- ent alternatives.
COMING SOON! (Continued
pg. 11)
Shameless
approaches used by many churches. Newspaper ads
mean nothing to a generation that never touches news-
print.
One major study published in recent years
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indicated that one of the main factors tied to numeri-
cal growth in churches was the strength of a church’s
Internet presence. “Snail mail” addresses may be less
important at first than a Web address, and increasing
numbers of those in the digital generations assume that
if an organization has an insignificant Web presence, it
must be an insignificant organization. We are trying to increase the circu-
These groups assume that entire categories of
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means and technologies. They simply take this for
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