Two weeks in France
To day I am back from France after spending a fortnight with an ex-student Nick Wilcock and his wife and children Jack, Alec and twins Laura and Kia. They run a French Villa in Prades, South France in the Pyrenees-Oriental.
While there I was able to use his WiFi enabled computer to check emails and send them too. Yet this was a poor region of France. I was surprised at how uickly WiFi had penetrated the area. As far as Nick was concerned WiFi enabled all rooms to access their emails and communicate with the world. We seem to get used to ideas at an increasingly rapid rate. Indeed, Nick said he could not run his business without email, the website and text messaging. There is internet banking too. Digitisation did not stop there either. He has many incredible pictures taken with a digital camera - a memorable one is of a frozen waterfall up in the heights of Mount Canigou.
The more I see of our new digitised world, the more I think of Tapscott (1995) and his twelve themes that charaterise this digital revolution taking place in our lives.
While there I was able to use his WiFi enabled computer to check emails and send them too. Yet this was a poor region of France. I was surprised at how uickly WiFi had penetrated the area. As far as Nick was concerned WiFi enabled all rooms to access their emails and communicate with the world. We seem to get used to ideas at an increasingly rapid rate. Indeed, Nick said he could not run his business without email, the website and text messaging. There is internet banking too. Digitisation did not stop there either. He has many incredible pictures taken with a digital camera - a memorable one is of a frozen waterfall up in the heights of Mount Canigou.
The more I see of our new digitised world, the more I think of Tapscott (1995) and his twelve themes that charaterise this digital revolution taking place in our lives.
posted by Dr Brian Morris at 6:27 am
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