Screenagers - not what I was expecting but made me think

Book by Douglas Rushkoff "ScreenAgers Lessons in Chaos from Digital Kids" and a word now famous thanks to Lady Gaga

Not what I expected - somehow I thought the book was going to be about how kids interact with screens and how having been bought digital what their psychology was.  Well it was a lot about kids and trying to understand them, but was about their entire lifestyle and not just digital. He also offers a controversial view that attention is not about concentration on one thing (classical old thinking) but putting things together from dragging them together from many sources at the same time.

The book describes the end of linearity, how the youth are not evolving but jumping (innovating) discovering what we are capable of, but are doing with chaos, more than searching, discovering, not breaking the rules but recreating them..... they are time rich and therefore have that one precious resource

Given that evolution is loosely based on survival of the fittest - some how just keeping ahead with the adoption in adversity, a dependency on a mutation for survival or improvement.  This model is not right for the innovation and the screenagers...  What happens when you jump significantly beyond and gain something that is not useful today but could change the future......innovation.