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I'm 43, and a "digital native", too. And I question this "understand deeply" thing. I would not claim to understand the Internet deeply, and I'm only a professional user since 1992, or so.

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It's the difference between a 18 year old French speaker that learned French from the cradle, and a 43 year old French speaker that learned French to fluency in college.

The point I was trying to make is that many of the so-called digital natives don't know shit.

I'm only doing computing since 1981 or so (it was mostly goats, earthen floors, abacuses and kerosene lamps before), and every day I'm painfully reminded how little I know. Now enter the so-called digital native.

So excuse me if I laugh politely at your metaphor.

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