Born digital????

What does born digital means? It means babies are no longer coming out of their mothers’ belly? Or the stork got tired of flying around the world delivering babies to parents who are in love and ready to have a family?

Well, born digital does not mean any of this, however it means that new generations are born in a digitalized world, in which everything is different than the one in which the author of this text grew up.

This reading reminds me a lot of a book in ethics class back in high school, which is called “Ethics for Amador" and it is written by a Spanish philosopher named Fernando Savater. In this book, written almost 40 years ago, the author gives a lot of recommendations to his son about ethics and how he should live ethics in the constant changing world. The same with this text, the author manifest to the reader how the generational change is causing changes in the society which is going completely digital, and it uses the term “born digital” to make reference to kids who are being born in this digital era. I won’t go again in the author examples of how everything has changed, but I want to mention that I grew up in a total different environment than the author describes, even though I grew up in the 90’s, I consider I went digital until I was 13 years old and this was with the guidance of my parents and this may be because I grew up in a different country than the one the author wrote this piece.  

I don’t quite like this reading, because it is focused in a nostalgia of past being better than digital era.  After the long comparison between the times the author grew up and the author makes a good point, in which she mentions that digital born are exposed due to the information they share in the web may make them embarrassed in the future and they give to many details of themselves, in Mexico this excessive information sharing has led to kidnaping and murderers, so this point is the only one that is worth in the reading, at least for my perspective.

Of to Indianapolis, to sweat Black and Gold….. GO HUSKIES