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'

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 New York Times reports that 'socialism is reduced to a single, short chapter' (1 of 57) in the new Chinese High School history course. A focus on the cultural revolution is being eschewed in favour of one focused on the information revolution and colourful tutorials on economics, technology and globalisation. This experiment is being conducted initially in Shanghai where local authorities have freedom to change the currriculum.

The idea of running Bricking It came to me when I was sitting in the MP Derek Wyatt's office in the second week of the New Year. He was sharing anecdotes from his recent trip to India and in particular how impressed he was the education facilities and the appetite for learning in the sub-continent. We mused about the grandchildren and children of his constituents in the Isle of Sheppey might be doing for a living twenty years time.