I am the product of my digital era. Technology has been an integral part of my life, even without my taking notice of it, because it has always been there. The flaw in this thinking is that it has not ALWAYS been there to the extent that it is today. I still remember using dial-up internet, listening to a dial tone on a huge computer monitor, as if it were such a long time ago. Now computers are faster, and smaller with more capabilities, but as technology has grown over the years, so have I. I have learned every new feature and capability with relative ease because it seems natural, easy, native. It has grown with me.
It hasn't always been like this though, what seems like so integral a part of our society to me is foreign to others. Just a couple of days ago I was explaining to my grandma how to exit a window on the internet! I suppose I could attribute her lack of comfort with the internet to her time, it is something new to her. I guess technology is like a language in that way, it is easier to be fluent in something you have known your entire life, quite another thing to become accustomed to it later in the game.
