Notes on Special Event: Speaker Roy Christopher

• Ted Newcomb & Roy Christopher, 40 years old
• "The medium is the message."
• Technology is a natural part of his life, but it can also be a distraction, so there is a mix of both.
• Wanted to do bigger projects (i.e. books),simple interviews of a few questions so it would stay interesting.
• Primarily known for the remix/mash-up culture,
• "Hip-hop culture is the blueprint of the 21st century culture."
• Medium Picture: about the ways we change our lives with technology.
• Technology broke up generations; the past generation began with T.V.s or the internet, unlike us who are completely accustomed.
• "Nothing will be on the medium that will be more important than the medium itself."
• "The more you know how thinks work, the closer you are to reaching digital maturity." Although, like knowing how a car works, you don't have t0 know precisely how all technology works.
• Q: Does technology create challenges or opportunities in younger generations?
• Both, you could excel in younger generations that older ones can't, but they can teach them.
• "Trusting the next generation."
• Older generations need to stop worrying about the youth.  We'll grow up just fine.
• Multitasking has become something usual/normal in our lives, but it still effects the quality of the work.
• Christopher agrees that multitasking effects the quality of work.
• Online courses, assignments, and the education related online pages are becoming incorporated into our lives so that to not be a part of the online community would make you left out.