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Digital natives have grown up in a landscape where access to information and influence has been flattened. They have watched media distribution bottlenecks in the form of networks and studios lose influence to youtube and independent production houses. They have watched companies bow down to viral video critiques, and watched political systems get hacked by social networks. This is a generation that doesn’t understand restrictions on access to media if those restrictions are inefficient or obviously detrimental to the system as a whole. This is a generation that has been at war with DRM and copyright right from the start. It is a generation awash with free tutorials and downloadable source code. University students are trained to navigate the power dynamics of the outside world. Students are expected to conform to the will of idiosyncratic professors as a sign of their flexibility in the face of power. Students are expected to perform redundant tasks in exams with artificial restrictions on access to information—learning to live with inefficiency rather than to challenge it. The first three paragraphs sound like paradise. I was smitten by the time I finished reading “former beer factory in the heart of industrial Berlin.”
