Last week I blogged a piece about the Business Week article on the echo boomers. The FT have given Lee Raine from the Pew Internet Project front page coverage on their fortnighlty Digital Business *supplement today to develop an essay on the arrival of internet natives in the workplace. It argues that the typical 21 year old graduate fronts up for his first day at work having clocked up 5,000 hours of video gaming, having exchanged 250,000 e mails, IMs and mobile texts, 10,000 hours of mobile use and 3,500 hours online ! This 'You Tube' generation Raine argues are likely to challenge the conventional practices and structures of typical organisations. Well we will see...

The FT is running a great series of pieces this week on New Britain todays illuminating - if somewhat depressing - report by Chris Giles suggests that the rewards of globalisation are not evenly spread (which is, I guess, hardly a surprise). Contrasting economic growth rates in two valleys the Tees and the Thames he consludes that the lessons of the last nine years is that '21st century globalisation favours the well connected and the well- heeled over the distant and the deprived'

I've now posted pictures from the event and a set of interviews. There are three from our opening speakers:

• India: so much more than call centres - Derek Wyatt MP
• Passport to security - be adventurous - Kevin Steele
• What's the solution? That's up to us all - Leon Benjamin

Other people also kindly gave me a minute or two to report back on their conversations:

What a great event yesterday. There was a great buzz throughout. Well done everyone. I am sure this is not the last 'flat world' social conference....

a number of you asked if I could send a link to Dan Pink's book A Whole New Mind and also check out his blog he is on to something. On similar things I urge you to have a look at the Cool Reads section and download Ken Robinson's TED speech. you won't regret it....

I probably should have come across the term 'echo boomers' - the kids of the baby boomers - before but they are featured in this Business Week piece on the best places to launch a career in the US. Interestingly, Disney take top spot followed by Google, Teach for America and other more traditional firms JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs et al.

The other day I blogged a piece about the challenges of global warming and energy deficit, based on coversations with my futurist friend David Greenop: When friends say "we've got problems" you listen harder . I was trying to make the point that we take most notice of those we know and trust.

"keeping the edge" is a section in today's telegraph about Britain and overseas competition."

"As a country we are great technophiles." We always want to develop newer and better ways of communicating with each other, be it voice to voice, or spinning a story in television drama. Ed Shedd, Deloitte.

Here's a link to a recent blog by Steve Pavlina listing 10 reasons why you should never get a job:

Steve explains;

"Getting a job and trading your time for money may seem like a good idea. There's only one problem with it. It's stupid! It's the stupidest way you can possibly generate income! This is truly income for dummies.