Technique 2.109 — Digital Curiosity
Introduction
With new technology, people's responses can vary from curiosity to fear, especially around the language like 'smart contracts', 'meta-averse', 'ambient tech', 'distributed ledger', 'sovereign identity', 'personal digital twin', etc.
People can easily become technically overwhelmed by the technical tsunami facing them, eg
"...Artificial intelligence and ChatGPT, data privacy and security, cloud computing, the chain and bitcoin, the subscription economy, Web 3.0 and the Internet of things, the list goes on..."
Andrew Gill as quoted by Hans van Leeuwen, 2024
Yet the digital curious
"...use technology to solve problems, they are willing to experiment, keen to learn, be creative and adaptable..."
Hans van Leeuwen, 2024
Some questions to determine the level of digital curiosity
Answer by ticking 'yes' or 'no' to the questions below:
- Do you regularly use Google? (Yes/No)
- Do you read your newspapers and magazines digitally, ie online? (Yes/No)
- Do you bank online using an app? (Yes/No)
- Do you use 2 factor authentication on everything? (Yes/No)
- Do you use Chat GPT or a similar generative AI tool? (Yes/No)
- Do you use bitcoin? (Yes/No)
Comments
A higher the number of ‘yes’ answers correlates with a higher degree of digital curiosity; conversely, a higher number of ‘no’ answers shows a lack of digital curiosity.