I’m not sure you could more thoroughly misread me nor and I sure why you think it “really bothers me.” As I noted in my blog, I find the kind of philosophizing being engaged in here both amusing and necessary.

The “it scares me” was tongue in cheek; as I’ve made clear multiple time, while I disagree with much of the rhetoric, I think the digital native and netgen proclaimers are agitated for a very real reason.

I realize you hate the term, but if you set that aside I’m confident you can see what I am saying. *I’m* not saying you are trying to “pinion an entire generation into a SINGLE definition”– but I’m not sure how you can describe being members of “a generation” as an analogy, forward a term like postdigitalism and not recognize that in doing so you are– as a matter of practical force of philosophy and rhetoric– putting an entire generation (or a sufficient number to philosophize about characteristics of that future group) into *A* definition. A subtle (maybe) but critical distinction.

You have a long way to go to demonstrate that your idea goes further than assuming the same subsumation of technology that digital nativists pine for and claim is coming. If anyone can do it, it will be people like you. But I don’t know that the distinction you seek from digital native assumptions is, in this respect, is even possible. It certainly isn’t apparent yet.

Sorry if that bothers you, but it’s what I see from here and your distaste for digital native theoreticians, their rhetoric, and their other arguments isn’t really relevant. You’re both, so far, pointing at a very similar– if not identical– future, though I suspect your method of doing so has a much higher potential to be productive because, from the little that is there so far, you are actually interested in the “what happens then” rather than merely reveling in the fact that it can/will happen at all.

I have no idea where the “hacks” thing is coming from. You seem remarkably bitter or resentful or *something* given that you put forth a minimalistic, abstract idea and asked for people to tell you what they thought. Maybe I’m just not smart enough to keep up; or maybe what you want to say– and to some extent think you are saying– isn’t quite captured yet. I’m not a mind reader.