Strange new generation?

According to an article in the N.Y. Times called "Old Fogies by Their 20's", children growing up in the 00's are likely to be very different even from those who grew up in the 90's. Think about the changes in technology over the past ten years. Four year olds today will never know a world without e-books or cell phones. They will learn to tap a screen a screen to change it and to listen to telephone calls, videos and music on the same small screen. Will they use books at all? Probably they will. It will be another generation or more before e-books can compete with picture books in picture quality and imaginative font use. Author, Brad Stone, suggests that children used to instant response from their electronic servants will expect the same from adults, but we suspect that as they grow older they too will learn not to expect instant replies from their doctors or their contractors just like the rest of us. As for increased multitasking, someone somewhere should be doing research to discover whether differences between age groups in this ability come from natural aging or whether they are trained. Children have been multitasking for years, but as adults most of them lose much of this ability. Every new generation looks strange and different, but each one eventually settles into the human pattern, although certainly with a few new twists.