Peter Cochrane's Blog: Kids today - LANs - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com So what of today's youngsters, what do they see? One eight-year-old I came across has never seen a computer connected to anything other than a power outlet when charging.
Kids in each new generation just take certain things (especially technology related) for granted that someone even 5 years older would have seen appear and disrupt they way they used the same technology.
Peter Cochrane sites a few examples such as kids today expecting WiFi access to the internet wherever they go and the appearance of the IR remote control instead of a wired one.