“Feed the rabbits. Starve the turtles.”

From Will Richardson's blog comes a quote from Clay Shirky in the Columbia Journalism Review:

I’m just so impatient with the argument that the world should be slowed down to help people who aren’t smart enough to understand what’s going on. It’s in part because I grew up in a generation that benefited enormously from not doing that. Right? The baby boomers, when we were young, we had zero, zero patience for the idea that people who are in their fifties in the ’70s and ’80s should somehow be shielded from cultural changes because somehow the stuff that we were doing was upsetting them. So, now it’s our turn and we ought to just suck it up.


And a comment from the blog ... Well, I’m one of those baby boomers (61) who had little patience for our elders as you’ve described. Now, as a educational technology trainer, I have little patience for those in their 30s-50s who haven’t a clue on what’s going on (with technology) in their classrooms and students’ lives. Many (not all) just don’t get it and brush it off with an “oh well” or “it’s a kids thing.” The good news is I also work with seniors in their 70s & 80s who email, video chat, Skype, blog, etc., etc. “Feed the rabbits….AMEN!