What The Younger Generation Face In A Digital World | Darren Roos | TEDxBruntsfield

As we move towards an "always online, always digital" future, what are the challenges and skills needed that a future generation of children face living in a world of ever changing innovation and exposure online.
Darren is General Manager for North Europe Middle East & Africa at SAP, the market leader in enterprise application software. Darren’s passionate and innovative approach to management and his unique understanding in how technology can help unravel complex business issues, has led him to be one of SAP’s youngest and most respected leaders globally. As well as supporting customers with their digital transformation journey, Darren has a personal commitment to support the promotion of early talent and diversity within SAP, and is an active leader and role model in both these areas. Darren started his career in Sales in South Africa and during his 20 year tenure spanning across Africa, Europe, Asia and Latin America, he has worked for some of the world’s largest technology companies as well as a technology start-up during the Millennium. Darren is South African and currently lives in London with his young family.
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[@KevinDurette]

"So, Luke, at seven years old, he has no fear of regret. (Okay?) He will video something; he will write something; he will take a photograph of something and upload it without any fear of that regret.
But what about this idea of the digital shadow? So, the digital shadow is something that people are putting onto the internet that you didn't choose to have put up there.
So, I can tell you that as a young person, I may have done some things that I didn't want captured by somebody on a camera phone--right?--probably more than a few things, and as I was growing up, there weren't people walking around with camera phones. So, as I stand here today, I don't worry that this video or photograph is going to appear from when I was 16 years old and did something crazy, but I worry about this for Luke. I worry that as he grows up in this world where nothing is sacred. Everything can be captured. Everything he says--every conversation he has on WhatsApp--could be screenshot and put up on the Internet, and it will be there forever.
And there is a chance that it will ruin friendships,
It will ruin romantic relationships that he may have,
and most importantly, perhaps from my concern at this point, is that it may well have an impact on his career in the future."
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Maybe this will affect Luke and will affect my own two children by the time they're in their 20s, but my hope is that by the time they're all in their 50s and their generation is running the world--when EVERYONE no doubt by then will have accumulated an embarrassing online past--maybe they'll be forced to abandon this fantasy our current generation holds that people are intrinsically the same person their whole lives.
Maybe society will learn by then that it's okay to make mistakes. It's okay to have been young once. It's okay to learn and grow and to show what learning and growth look like.
Maybe squaring their worldview to this reality will make them more humble.
Maybe it will make them less resistant to smaller changes, like migrating their business to a new ERP 😊.
Maybe this acceptance of growth as a fact of life will be one more reason why they’ll innovate faster than we could ever dream.

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how is there only 2 comments (including mine) when this channel has 8.8 million subs...

[@virgyburdese]

3 now.. : (

[@squidmansoup]

..or whether the Americans will vote for trump hahah