A main point in all of this is that the NetGen are progressing full-flow into working environments and shifting attitudes. Old school organisations are forced to keep up with innovations coming from the youth who know no boundaries.

In this, I think that there is a huge class of highschool students (think back to our schooling days) who appreciate literature and the time for which the piece was written. Can we truly relate to the characters of Dickens et al – probably not, but we get the human undertones. Similar is true of Chaucer, even the Bible. More often than not, books studied are about the human condition and it’s moral mortality. This will long prevail.

This post does raise some interesting points though. It hints more at a youthful society that questions ‘WHY’ as opposed to a ‘pack-minded’ youth of previous times perhaps? In this model comparison, it is invariably the ‘questioners’ who provide true innovation to industries and society as a whole. With so many NetGens questioning and ‘doing their own thing’ – the landscape is full of excitement with a slight concern that new commerce models can’t keep up.

I would love to get the view from NetGen about Orwells ’1984′. Now that would be interesting. On a scale, at the time the readership were shocked that such a society could exist (with the undertone that it already did behind closed doors), a generation up kind of accepted it with a hint of paranoia. Surely NetGen would be indifferent about the prospect?!

Great post.

Salinger didn’t write it though.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/02/jd-salinger-legal-action-against-sequel-author

All I can say is I’m glad there’s no “Part 2″.