Music, Leaders, Events and Technology.

These are just some of the factors which makes a generation a generation. In the long run of life, several ages have passed. Some of these are the Generation X, Generation Y/Echo Boom, MTV Generation, iGeneration, and the present generation: the New Silent Generation.

In this entry, allow me to focus in different eras and how the 6^th Information Revolution: The Highway affected the people in certain generations.

I remember a certain scene in Pisay, a movie in Cinemalaya 2007 about students of Philippine Science in 1980s, where there were two boys who were talking about computer. It goes something like this:

Boy1: Orb, tignan mo 'tong computer ko! Kaya nito magstore ng files hanggang 40 kilobytes! (Bro, look at my computer! It can store files up to 40 kilobytes!)

Boy2: Wow orb, ang ganda naman niyang computer mo! (Wow bro, your computer is great!)

Oh yes. They were both so impressed by the 40kb capacity of the computer while in the present, some people call their 2.73gb(2,938,266kb) free space a very low disc space.

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(Still from Pisay)

Boy1: Balang araw, gagawa ako ng Interconet, Ebox, at Compost. (Someday, I'll invent Interconet, Ebox, and Compost)

Boy2: (laughs)

Are you wondering what the Interconet, Ebox, and Compost are? According to the kid in the movie, Interconet means International Computer Network, Ebox is Electronic Box, and Compost is the Computer Post Office. In the present generation, we are enjoying these services but in a different name. It is now called as the Internet, Inbox, and Email. These are wonderful innovations of the “Highway”

It all starts with ideas. Ideas which makes the people ask for more. Ideas which trigger the minds of the people to create. Always remember that the people will never be satisfied with what they have, they will always yearn for more. This is how the technology evolves and as it evolves, information revolution follows.

How about the Filipino youth today? How does the “Highway” affects us?

“...the Internet provides several ways for young people to communicate with each other, interact with what is on a site, and create their own content. Combining new technologies with existing ones are also expanding the scope of computer-mediated communications to include personal and professional interactions. And the new media are becoming more pervasive, touching all aspects of the lives of the younger generation.”

- Alecks Pabico, iReport Issue No.3 – Virtually Yours

According to Alecks Pabico, technology has redefined the Filipino youth and I would definitely agree with his statement.

Rochy, the barkada in his article “Virtually Yours” is one of my barkadas. I am the boy who is wearing a light blue polo shirt in the picture. We are of different ages, different interests, and different personalities but was connected by technology. Because of the “Highway”, people from different walks of life are being united and converged making it easier to interact with them with the use of different electronic means.

From which generation are you from?

Me? Obviously, I'm from the Digital Age. The generation where the “Highway” plays a great role in molding the people in who they are and what they will be – the Generation Z.