Digital Nation

The video digital nation brings up some very serious concerns regarding how technology will affect today's youth. I completely agree that we need to take a better look at what all of this digital media is doing to our children's minds. I have always worried overuse of technology causing over stimulation and a constant need for instant gratification for all people not just children. However, I also feel as though we have created a world where students must be accustomed to do these types of things. How can we tell students not to multitask on the computer when they will grow up in a world where things like multitasking are essential to getting their job done and living their life. I know very few successful people who sit at a desk all day and focus on one thing.
I was interested in the comments about teachers noticing how students writing has changed from long drawn out thoughts to short paragraphs of changing thought. At first this worried me a little, but then as I began to think about it,I realized that the reason that their writing is changing is because they are adapting to the world they are living in. They are living in a faster paced society. Nobody focuses on one thing for very long anymore. People need to get to the point in as few words as possible because there is not enough time to sit and concentrate on one thing for long. So although it is definetly a different way of writing, I don't nessecarily think it is a bad thing. My question is there a need for the old way of writing which was brought about in a much slower world where people had time to follow long drawn out thought processes, or should we focus on preparing their minds for a much faster paced future. The potential loss of traditional writing is still sad but we cannot lose sight of the fact that we are preparing our students for the future not the past.