Frontline: Digital Nation

The Frontline documentary about our "Virtual Frontier," provided a very interesting look into how the digital revolution is changing our lives. It is amazing to see how reliant we have become on digital media and its many functions. I found the section about the students in China especially fascinating. From a young age they are taught about safe internet use, and how the internet is their friend. Also, the segment about MIT students and they're ability to multitask really caught my attention. I was not surprised to find out that they were less able to focus and be successful on a single task and they actually turned out not to be very adept at multitasking at all.
This documentary so far has really opened my eyes to the degree to which people are addicted to digital media. We need constant stimulation from cell phones, computers, the internet, PDAs, iPods, etc. to keep us from becoming bored or idle. It's a little scary to see how the addiction is impeding our ability to interact on a personal level and is even affecting families like the story at the beginning of the documentary where every member of the family was sitting at the table together yet engaged in different worlds.