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<blockquote data-quote="Gyani Jarnail Singh" data-source="post: 143559" data-attributes="member: 189"><p>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 18px"><strong> No Country for Old Men</strong></span>[/FONT]</p><p> <em>[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">The Internet is one of the most striking markers of the 21st century’s spin on the generational divide, says <strong>Rashmi bansal.</strong> the older lot may resist what cyberspace is doing to norms and relationships, but the young have made it their home</span>[/FONT]</em></p><p> <table width="250" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"> <tbody><tr> <td><p style="text-align: center">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>DID YOU KNOW?</strong></span>[/FONT]</p><p></td> </tr> <tr> <td><p style="text-align: center">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>3.7 crore and growing</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px"> Of india’s 3.7 crore Internet users in 2006, 34 lakh were college students. They spent 37% of their time on information and education-related </span></p> <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 10px"> searches, 35% on e-mail, 14% on chat and 9% on entertainment</span>[/FONT]</p><p></td> </tr> </tbody></table> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">It’s close to 10 pm. In bunches of twos and threes, on cycles and on foot, gulping down a still-hot coffee, leaving the remains of a Maggi, the girls are heading home. Ten o’clock is curfew time at the iit Roorkee girls hostel — no such restrictions for the boys, of course. Locked up in a pwd cement castle, like ‘decent’ girls ought to be. And yet not gazing out forlornly at the world. “Jab hostel mein Internet hai to kya problem hai?” Who can feel like a prisoner with a 24-hour, high-speed connection to the virtual world?</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> A world where the normal rules don’t seem to apply. A world which the people who make the rules barely understand. A world where who you are and what you wish to be can, in a brief and shining moment, collide.</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> Or, at least, that’s how we — who grew up in the pre-Internet era — think of it. We rationalise, we analyse, we numeralise. The Internet and Mobile Association of India estimates that school-going kids spend an average of 322.3 minutes a week on the Internet, while college students spend an average of 433.2 minutes a week. And that’s just the average. There are a lot of young people who log hours and hours more.</span>[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> </span>[/FONT]</p><p> <table width="50" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4"> <tbody><tr> <td><img src="http://tehelka.com/channels/Thehub/2007/May/05/images/hub050507No_Country01.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#efefef"><p style="text-align: center">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><strong>In a world we can enter with our minds alone, the young have grown the gills, the fins and the aqua intelligence to swim a sea of sex, spam and scraps from ‘dude123’</strong></span>[/FONT]</p><p></td> </tr> </tbody></table> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">Why do they it? Because this is the only life they know. </span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">My seven-year-old daughter hears of a country called Finland on TV. “Mummy, where is it?” she asks. “Find out,” I exhort. There is a globe on her study table, an atlas, and more than one dictionary. “I know,” she says triumphantly, “I’ll look it up on Google Earth!” </span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">Not just Google, but a specific Google application.</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> Every generation is different in a single, definitive way. My parents learnt English as a language. I think in it. We still see the Internet as a utility. The younger generation lives in it.</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> Those over 30 use the Internet. E-mail, Google Search, Skype, booking airline tickets — these are the tools that facilitate their lives, rooted in a real world. The more adventurous among us blog, use flickr, explore YouTube. But the majority is too busy or too intimidated to learn so much that’s new. More so because much of this stuff has no specific purpose.</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> And that is precisely the attraction of the Internet for the young. Sure, they look for jobs, spouses and movie reviews online. But, equally important, they hang out. Orkut is nothing but a virtual adda — albeit a slightly more democratic one than in the real world. </span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">Guys who would never have had the courage to say hello to that girl at their bus stop now breezily leave scraps with six exclamation marks. The girl won’t reply, most likely, but chance to liya na. And, hey, once every hundred times or so, someone hits bullseye. </span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">Which hope is reason enough to keep trying.</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> So why does it upset us so when we see our kids, their eyes glowing, their fingers racing nimbly across the keyboard? Almost as if under a spell.</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> Why does an iit Bombay, which first filled the student cup to overflowing with high-speed Internet access, now declare, “What we have given, we can also take away?”</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">The reason, I think, is that this new world our young people have discovered is like Lucy stumbling through the wardrobe into the magical world of Narnia. Who would have thought there could be something like that hidden away in an ordinary wooden cupboard, full of mothballs and old coats?</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> In a similar way, the computer was supposed to lead our youth down the path of knowledge — to software jobs and global careers. We bought it for ‘educational purposes’. </span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">Laments the parent. “Now look — all he does is play online games!”</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> It’s a betrayal of sorts. The computer is no longer a ‘course’ but a box with as many mindless — and endless — possibilities as television. Both lead to new and radical ideas. </span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">They say evolution takes millions of years. That if the world were suddenly to be flooded, we would not be able to simply adapt and grow gills. </span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">That is Nature’s way. </span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px">So we trick it. We create a world which we can enter with our minds alone — and the young quickly grow the gills, the fins, the aqua intelligence which lets them swim serenely through a sea of sex, spam, shayari forwards and scraps from ‘dude123’.</span>[/FONT]</p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"> It’s us oldies who are left on dry land, in the real world, after short dives in and out of this orgasmic online ocean. Shaking our heads, and gasping for breath.</span>[/FONT]</p><p> <p style="text-align: right">[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]<span style="font-size: 10px"><em>Bansal is founder-editor of jam magazine (<a href="http://www.jammag.com" target="_blank">www.jammag.com</a>)</em></span>[/FONT]</p><p> </p><p> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gyani Jarnail Singh, post: 143559, member: 189"] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=5][B] No Country for Old Men[/B][/SIZE][/FONT] [I][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]The Internet is one of the most striking markers of the 21st century’s spin on the generational divide, says [B]Rashmi bansal.[/B] the older lot may resist what cyberspace is doing to norms and relationships, but the young have made it their home[/SIZE][/FONT][/I] <table width="250" align="right" border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="3"> <tbody><tr> <td>[CENTER][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][B]DID YOU KNOW?[/B][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] </td> </tr> <tr> <td>[CENTER][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][B]3.7 crore and growing[/B] Of india’s 3.7 crore Internet users in 2006, 34 lakh were college students. They spent 37% of their time on information and education-related searches, 35% on e-mail, 14% on chat and 9% on entertainment[/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] </td> </tr> </tbody></table> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]It’s close to 10 pm. In bunches of twos and threes, on cycles and on foot, gulping down a still-hot coffee, leaving the remains of a Maggi, the girls are heading home. Ten o’clock is curfew time at the iit Roorkee girls hostel — no such restrictions for the boys, of course. Locked up in a pwd cement castle, like ‘decent’ girls ought to be. And yet not gazing out forlornly at the world. “Jab hostel mein Internet hai to kya problem hai?” Who can feel like a prisoner with a 24-hour, high-speed connection to the virtual world?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] A world where the normal rules don’t seem to apply. A world which the people who make the rules barely understand. A world where who you are and what you wish to be can, in a brief and shining moment, collide.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] Or, at least, that’s how we — who grew up in the pre-Internet era — think of it. We rationalise, we analyse, we numeralise. The Internet and Mobile Association of India estimates that school-going kids spend an average of 322.3 minutes a week on the Internet, while college students spend an average of 433.2 minutes a week. And that’s just the average. There are a lot of young people who log hours and hours more.[/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/FONT] <table width="50" align="left" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4"> <tbody><tr> <td>[IMG]http://tehelka.com/channels/Thehub/2007/May/05/images/hub050507No_Country01.jpg[/IMG]</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" bgcolor="#efefef">[CENTER][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][B]In a world we can enter with our minds alone, the young have grown the gills, the fins and the aqua intelligence to swim a sea of sex, spam and scraps from ‘dude123’[/B][/SIZE][/FONT][/CENTER] </td> </tr> </tbody></table> [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]Why do they it? Because this is the only life they know. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]My seven-year-old daughter hears of a country called Finland on TV. “Mummy, where is it?” she asks. “Find out,” I exhort. There is a globe on her study table, an atlas, and more than one dictionary. “I know,” she says triumphantly, “I’ll look it up on Google Earth!” [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]Not just Google, but a specific Google application.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] Every generation is different in a single, definitive way. My parents learnt English as a language. I think in it. We still see the Internet as a utility. The younger generation lives in it.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] Those over 30 use the Internet. E-mail, Google Search, Skype, booking airline tickets — these are the tools that facilitate their lives, rooted in a real world. The more adventurous among us blog, use flickr, explore YouTube. But the majority is too busy or too intimidated to learn so much that’s new. More so because much of this stuff has no specific purpose.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] And that is precisely the attraction of the Internet for the young. Sure, they look for jobs, spouses and movie reviews online. But, equally important, they hang out. Orkut is nothing but a virtual adda — albeit a slightly more democratic one than in the real world. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]Guys who would never have had the courage to say hello to that girl at their bus stop now breezily leave scraps with six exclamation marks. The girl won’t reply, most likely, but chance to liya na. And, hey, once every hundred times or so, someone hits bullseye. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]Which hope is reason enough to keep trying.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] So why does it upset us so when we see our kids, their eyes glowing, their fingers racing nimbly across the keyboard? Almost as if under a spell.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] Why does an iit Bombay, which first filled the student cup to overflowing with high-speed Internet access, now declare, “What we have given, we can also take away?”[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]The reason, I think, is that this new world our young people have discovered is like Lucy stumbling through the wardrobe into the magical world of Narnia. Who would have thought there could be something like that hidden away in an ordinary wooden cupboard, full of mothballs and old coats?[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] In a similar way, the computer was supposed to lead our youth down the path of knowledge — to software jobs and global careers. We bought it for ‘educational purposes’. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]Laments the parent. “Now look — all he does is play online games!”[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] It’s a betrayal of sorts. The computer is no longer a ‘course’ but a box with as many mindless — and endless — possibilities as television. Both lead to new and radical ideas. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]They say evolution takes millions of years. That if the world were suddenly to be flooded, we would not be able to simply adapt and grow gills. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]That is Nature’s way. [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2]So we trick it. We create a world which we can enter with our minds alone — and the young quickly grow the gills, the fins, the aqua intelligence which lets them swim serenely through a sea of sex, spam, shayari forwards and scraps from ‘dude123’.[/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2] It’s us oldies who are left on dry land, in the real world, after short dives in and out of this orgasmic online ocean. Shaking our heads, and gasping for breath.[/SIZE][/FONT] [RIGHT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][I]Bansal is founder-editor of jam magazine ([url]www.jammag.com[/url])[/I][/SIZE][/FONT][/RIGHT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][SIZE=2][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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