I like what Marc has to say and I think the notion of digital natives - digital immigrants has some merit, but I think it has very little to do with age and more to do with attitude.

I’m 46 and very much a digital native and I know people in their 50’s, 60’s and 70’s who are also digital natives. Then there are young people who could only be describe as immigrants.

Then there is another class of people altogether ignored by Marc, they are the digital conscripts, you’ll find them in organisations big and small all over the world..best..janet

Nah. Just kidding.

Personally, I too *try* to avoid buying into these sorts of sweeping, generalised (and mostly manufactured) demographics, especially since “tweens” were invented.

The more we get seduced into “I’m a Sagittarius” levels of science, the more we unwittingly legitimise the very things that stand in the way of genuine insight or discovery.

Generalisations can be useful, models are ways of representing things in ways that will assist apprehension and thinking in categories and clusters seems to be how our brains are built.

But none of these things will ever replace the “suck it and see” school of observation and if you look around it transpires that all of us contain multitudes and *none of us* can be defined in simple categories.

I should know. I was born in year of the smartypants.

RG