Last week I ranted that Barack Obama should not give up his Blackberry and email. Well, in the Wall Street Journal today, Bruce Schneier totally agrees with me. I think his reasoning is unimpeachable; our new president is on the wrong side of the generational “digital divide.”
The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll. We’re now witnessing one aspect of that generation gap: the younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. Until our CEOs blog, our Congressmen Twitter, and our world leaders send each other LOLcats –- until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers –- we aren’t fully an information age society.