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Growing up Digital
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Growing up digital has heavily influenced the course of my life. The first computer I used was an old Macintosh at age four years old. From then on it was love. When I was eight I taught myself Photoshop, and was always playing with programs like Kidpix. As a teenager I kept a website, found free hosting and got donated a domain name by a fan and made awesome mashup art. It was in the days before blogging, and things like message boards and IRC were hot.

Right from the start of my digital education, I have been self-taught. In the spirit of the open knowledge commons that are embedded in the internet's founding principles, anything that I didn't know how to do on a computer I could find a tutorial on. Growing up with the internet has taught me to conceptualize knowledge in a different way. I see knowledge as networked, with every issue connected. I also see solutions in terms of networks, looking at how we can work together and share knowledge to empower our communities.

June 26, 2008 | 12:17 AM Comments  1 comments

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salazr Josue
June 26, 2008 | 11:06 AM
So true
I see all knowledge as reachable, if i want to i can learn anything. But an issue i can think of, is how because of this our memories are not as good, many things we dont even really learn anymore, we store bits of info and then usually forget about them, not because we have bad memory or whatever, but because we simply dont make the effort to really learn because that knowledge is always a few clicks away anyway..

before the internet, maybe people didnt have all this stuff available to them, but i bet they really learnt stuff when they studied, and made a great deal of effort to memorize.

nowadays everything kind of fades in and out. which isnt that bad really
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