Friday, February 29, 2008

Unimagination

Once I attended a talk on Branding and the speaker commented that despite the world population being the wealthiest than ever in history and despite the nearly infinite access to information nowadays, our youths are becoming less imaginative & creative.

My 2 cents is that they are not willing to think- it's just a chore to them. The world they live in is a world filled with instant gratification. I'm one of those people who grew up in the 'transition era'- I'm a Gen X. I have had the pleasure of being raised by parents who had to grow up in hardship and survived it all. I saw the changes that the Internet brought about and now I'm seeing how attached my students are to the Internet and how detached they are to the world- ironic, isn't it?

The time has come again for third year students to come up with the final year project titles, and for the umpteenth time someone suggests a system that automates a manual process. There is a lack of interesting titles, despite them living in a world full of imagination and wonder.

By the way, today's the day that marks the leap year! Oops- did I get distracted?

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