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HASTAC Scholar Whitney Trettien of MIT raised important questions of historicity in a comment on my previous blog posting, "The Historian's Dilemma and the Question of Generations": http://www.hastac.org/node/1666 I'd like to follow up with some thoughts that respond to her question and take up historian Robert Darnton's idea that we are living in the "fourth great information age": http://www.hastac.org/node/1662

Siva Vaidhyanathan just published "Generational Myth: Not All Young People are Tech-Savvy" in the Chronicle of Higher Education Review. http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=cyR8ms385ZjjcHcyWC5drKsJZckwxjkz I've already written to him to let him know how much I like this piece . . . And it also makes me antsy. As a historian of technology, I often find myself vacillating between generalization and specificity. Well, there's that one diary . . . and on the other there is the category of persons that one diarist represents. Ah, yes. Representation. Again.

Time. That's what a leave is for. Sometimes it is for escaping media, new and old. And sometimes it is for escaping into media, new and old.

What does it mean that the average American forfeited three vacation days last year---and we already take far less vacation than in many other industrial nations?