Chris,
note: see apology to chris below.
Please understand that we’re exposing the thinking process. We’ve posted initial, unguarded thoughts about an idea we aren’t sure about yet. I understand that there is something about this that really bothers you, but the ‘it scares me’ kinda language doesn’t really pull the conversation forward any. You might know, if you’ve read anything i’ve written or listened to a single podcast that i’ve done in the last four years that I happen to hate the digital native stuff all around. My hope, with actually approaching the work this way, is that people will allow for a little ‘good faith’ and allow us to firm up the explanations.

I’m not trying to pinion an entire generation into a single definition… and if you are finding that there I’m either being very careless or you are finding what you are choosing to see. This seems to be what you are saying in three different ways in three different paragraphs. “you are just using postdigital as a synonym for digital native” and this scares you.

No. I’m not.

What it means to know is shifting, as it always does, as our culture changes… and that has very little directly to do with ‘digital’ it has to do with how the communities are growing around that. The focus on the technology as the locus of change is the problem.

Or, maybe, we are the hacks we deride. that’s possible too. But this seems to be the dichotomy you’ve set up.