Everything that is old is new again

"Everything that is old is new again" used to refer primarily to clothes and perhaps music, today if appears to have spread to communication, learning and perhaps even the "wiring" of our thinking. While this all seems so very strange and like the immigrants will never catch up---I would like to remind the natives that this country, that our way of life (in the US), was founded by immigrants "evolving" culture, experience, and language over time. I will concede that the natives have indeed changed significantly from the immigrants that in itself is nothing new---not that very long ago folks walked because they had no alternate transportation and rode horses, camels and mules because the only things with wheels required the power of a living creature to move them. The times have always been changing and each generation wants to believe that there change is so significant, so major, so life altering that the generation before can not comprehend it or "keep up". While that is always true in part, it is equally false, in part. It seems there are always those with one foot in both generations willing to teach. I am anxious to engage in understanding the benefits and nuances of the changing world of technology and the influence it has had and will continue to have on how we, as human beings, relate to one another in all aspects of our lives. My interest in web 2.0 is to learn.