Technophobi The Sign Of A Born Leader? By Stuart Jeffries

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Text number three “Technophobia – the sign of a born leader?” by Stuart Jeffries is about the older generation and how they are coping with modern technology. The republican president candidate John McCain does not use his e-mail and doesn’t know how to send one. But McCain is not the only one who is in a learning process with the internet. Many from the older generations have enrolled themselves into computer courses in order to fit better into society and our present time.
In contrast to McCain, Barrack Obama is very prominent when it comes to social media in the modern World.
The leading computer scientist Donald Knuth has not opened an e-mail since 1990. He says that instead of being on the top, his job is to be in the bottom, doing research and other jobs.
But the most essential question is: “Can we be highly ranked individuals without the modern
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He thinks that the young generations are getting dumber and dumber. According to him youngsters know anything about history and politics. He thinks that the only reason why they use the internet, is to post status updates and pictures on Facebook: “They have developed a brazen disregard of books and reading” he says. I think Lee Drutman generalizes a lot, because he is addressing his opinion to all teenagers. There are a lot of clever and intelligent youngsters in our world, and I would only appoint a small group of young people as “dumb”. In this context I would not at all call them dumb, rather people who may have some individual problems or have a learning difficulties. “We have never had greater opportunities for educations than we are having now”, writes Bauerlein, a former director of Research and Analysis. Despite this claim, Lee Drutman thinks that our “New World” and new opportunities have made us dumber.
It is for many people a habit to go on Facebook and Twitter. It is so easy because the homepage is just a click away.
It can be discussed whether the use of Facebook by the young generations is too much or not, but I am sure that it will be hard to change their

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