Is the "Digital Nation" really dumbing us down or just making us anti-social? When you can live with someone and be worlds a part, is it worth co-existing? We have the tools to stay in contact with more people then our dunbar number says we are capable of, but is this digital life making those relationships more meaningful or less?
Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London, who wrote a paper on Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans where he hypothesizes:
Whether it is at an event, home, a class or a meeting where do we disconnect? I've even been on dates where the other person is incapable of disconnecting. You may be Googling the answers to a question, looking up a word you don't know, multi-tasking to tell the a business partner what is going on, blogging about an event or tweeting live event quotes. Are we doing ourselves a dis-service by trying to multitask all the time? Are we capable of always doing more then one thing? Maybe yes and maybe no. I'm not telling you either way, simply trying to inspire thought and conversation.
Seth Mattison is a well known generational speaker from Minneapolis, MN. He speaks to CEOs, groups, and corporations to help them better understand their counterparts. Like it or not their is a generation gap between Gen X, Millennials, Baby Boomers and Gen Y have a lot in common but sometimes our thought processes lead us in different directions. Seth's job is to help you better understand how to connect those dots and be a little more empathetic to each other.
At February's TCSMU Seth Mattison taught us about the nuances that everyone faces with technology advancements, mixed with helicopter-parents and some of the basic personality differences. For example most baby boomers worked their buns off to get where they are, paid their dues if you will. Many (not all) millenials, gen xers, and gen y employees have a sense of deserving higher roles, corner offices and feel little to no sense of loyalty to a company and there for don't plan to be there for 20 years. With some of the recent economic crisis and other technological advancements (that can also offer big pay jumps) can you blame either party for their feelings of turmoil?
In the words of Chris Brogan: What say you?
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Dunbar is an anthropologist at the University College of London, who wrote a paper on Co-Evolution Of Neocortex Size, Group Size And Language In Humans where he hypothesizes:
... there is a cognitive limit to the number of individuals with whom any one person can maintain stable relationships, that this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size ... the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained.
Whether it is at an event, home, a class or a meeting where do we disconnect? I've even been on dates where the other person is incapable of disconnecting. You may be Googling the answers to a question, looking up a word you don't know, multi-tasking to tell the a business partner what is going on, blogging about an event or tweeting live event quotes. Are we doing ourselves a dis-service by trying to multitask all the time? Are we capable of always doing more then one thing? Maybe yes and maybe no. I'm not telling you either way, simply trying to inspire thought and conversation.
Seth Mattison is a well known generational speaker from Minneapolis, MN. He speaks to CEOs, groups, and corporations to help them better understand their counterparts. Like it or not their is a generation gap between Gen X, Millennials, Baby Boomers and Gen Y have a lot in common but sometimes our thought processes lead us in different directions. Seth's job is to help you better understand how to connect those dots and be a little more empathetic to each other.
At February's TCSMU Seth Mattison taught us about the nuances that everyone faces with technology advancements, mixed with helicopter-parents and some of the basic personality differences. For example most baby boomers worked their buns off to get where they are, paid their dues if you will. Many (not all) millenials, gen xers, and gen y employees have a sense of deserving higher roles, corner offices and feel little to no sense of loyalty to a company and there for don't plan to be there for 20 years. With some of the recent economic crisis and other technological advancements (that can also offer big pay jumps) can you blame either party for their feelings of turmoil?
In the words of Chris Brogan: What say you?
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