Some Questions About "New Media" and "New Media Art": (1) Is this what your mind is like?

• Bruce Tulgan, Managing Generation X: How to Bring Out the Best in Young Talent (1995):
  
  ". . . Boomer managers find Xers to be disloyal, not sufficiently deferential to authority, short on attention, lacking commitment to work, arrogant, unwilling to go the extra mile, not willing to pay our dues, and overly concerned with finding fun and personal fulfillment in our work" (pp. 19-20)
  
       "Xers have developed a rapid-fire style of interacting with information because the information revolution has shaped the way we think. Don't forget, we didn't have time to develop pre-information learning habits because the information revolution was approaching at full speed by the time we learned to read. . . . Xers were born in the infobahn's fast lane.
       This generation is used to nearly infinite information coming at us in rapid-fire doses. Think of music videos, Miami Vice, CNN, ESPN, C-SPAN, Court TV, the Weather Channel, and VCRs. Vivid images of constant change: Revolution, war, terrorism, diplomacy, politics from Carter to Reagan to Clinton, famine, fire, earthquakes, floods, violent crime, sicko-crime, kangaroo courts, urban riots, oil spills, nuclear accidents, New Coke, Coke Classic, Caffeine Free Diet Pepsi, Jolt, Gary Hart, Michael Jackson, Tonya Harding, the making and unmaking of heroes, the making and unmaking of meaning.
      Xers are the children of video games and computers. Xers learned to write using word processors with which words, sentences and paragraphs can be rearranged, deleted, and replaced, changes can be made and errors erased—all without effort." (pp. 44-45)
  
  
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