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The most powerful communication technology of the 21st Century is not electronic but biological. DNA is the ultimate information source. By manipulating it, we will create a new, more efficient, and more powerful communication capability than anything electronic. ** 2) Ubiquity Since the Gutenberg we are now in a complex world of information overload. Negotiating complexity requires a constructive collaborative approach. We may indeed wish to talk the future more so as not to think of ourselves as commonly imbedded in the wage economy. This is the era of entrepreneurs for a reason, for, in many instances, our economies cannot thrive on wage bills.
 * What this means is that future media will help us connect with others at far deeper levels – we will become sensitive to other ways of knowing ( multiculturalism), sensitive to nature ( a green media), and sensitive to deeper levels of consciousness **

3) Networked individualism Concerning education, besides the ubiquity of computers, of interest is the dynamic by which youth are making use of computers, other digital tools and computer off-shoots and how this is affecting status and generation relations. This is relations within families and relations within school – pupil to teacher, peer to peer and the variety of ramifications. We are talking here about negotiated spaces.

4) Collaboration Whatever we do with technology is for a means to an end. Our end is having the capacity to keep shifting with tools where this is useful and to continue the practices of school as usual on many other levels. For an educational provider I perceive that of greater concern than was once to cater to opportunities for self expression may not now be so much a priority as the cultivation of skills of collaboration. Autonomy with tools has become the dominant vernacular of self. And the collaboration of self with others can lead to effective results.The possession of tools is an opportunity and a bind. It is a privilege that comes with responsibility. Any encounter that pupils have with digital tools may now also presume social engagement as the dynamic of collaborative work requires this. Collaborative study now gives us a new pedagogical doorway, one that can be shared in many ways.

Let’s consider ourselves living locally with new media, then, in a still dominant English and English American -speaking world, influenced by the Anglo –American mechanisms of utilitarianism and innovation, with global and local availability to other languages customs and where cash and algorithmic patterning is the core of our digital transactions and currency.

Let us watch more closely the significance of youth interaction with new media. One current segment of research finds that the mobile phone has given youth a flush of independence with communication - a social life more free of parents. For example, some youth have several phones for different frequent callers. The fact is significant. It is only during 2007 – 2009 that purchase of phones became more of a phenomenon. Adolescent social life via the cell-phone has altered manners and social transactions in the age fourteen to fifteen coterie. By age seventeen the cell-phone becomes an integrated communication tool.

5) Ageism Over the 20th Century, the period of an ideology of specialization, youth had their links with the adult world eroded and for a longer period. They had to wait their turn for entry into adult life.

6) post- consumption Is a world filled with consumption?. How much do youth partake, really? 7) production Whist it is 'hip' to say that we have moved from being a society of consumers to a society of producers,( the sort of maverick internet public shere use and the 'legitimate' terrains of use ) it has taken a while to notice what a producer can be //sans// camera, film and sound. Now we recognise that social networks act in fact as production sites almost solely on the computer. The time it takes to process information is weighed up in a competitive arena.

People must experiment. The economist, Richard Layard, in 2003 at The Lionnel Robbins Memorial Lectures, on the topic, Happiness: Has Social Science a Clue? spoke well of Bentham, a predecessor of John Stuart-Mill. He pointed out, “In the West we already have a society that is probably as happy as any there have been”.

Decisions can be made. This new -media world is vibrant and flourishing or it is facile and trivializing. It is a new form of time-wasting and a democracy. If we become boring to others using media we could try Pecha Kucha.(1)

More reading: Identity  http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=PECHA+KUCHA&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=PRZZSqa5NYTUsQOWzeSrAg&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4#

(1)Pecha Kucha, the Japanese word for chit-chat, engages with emotionally intelligent Signage.