Net Generation Articles

Growing Up Digital at The Shaping Ideas Forum

The smartest generation ever. That is how Don Tapscott, author of Wikinomics, describes today’s young people who, having grown up with the internet have different brains.

Rethinking How We Teach The ‘Net Generation’

Few will argue about America's colleges and universities being critical to our economic and intellectual future. And by many measures, that future looks promising: Competition for places in the country's top schools is fiercer than ever, more families are willing to...

The Guardian: The world’s unemployed youth: revolution in the air?

A common thread to the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt and protests elsewhere in the Middle East and north Africa is the soul-crushing high rate of youth unemployment. Twenty-four percent of young people in the region cannot find jobs. To be sure, protesters were...

Don on Macrowikinomics at Cognizant

A five-part series on building the future, creating the new web, millennials, collaboration and culture, self-organization, and rebooting business.

Top trends and developments for 2011

Thanks largely to the Internet, long-standing monopolies and power imbalances are being challenged as more people from more regions of the world connect, collaborate, and compete on the global stage. Young digital natives everywhere are questioning the historic...