Fall Behind or Stagnate: Catch 22's in the Info-Saturation Age

Nicolas Nova over at Pasta and Vinegar blogged an article titled A Generation Serves Notice: It's a moving target about the new generations and their dillema with technology-centric cultural development. He made some interesting points regarding social and individual development as effected by keeping up.

In this tech-centric world, the younger generation is caught up in the cultural fetishism of developing trends : technology. This really seems like the keeping up with the Jones mentality of previous generations—but this iteration is less competative than it is viral.

The article also presents a semblance of a social-mesh network, where the grape-vine effect passes around trends—which is actually more powerful than traditional broadcast marketing and publicism.

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