"Push it!"

The gaming generation’s answer to most everything is what that is.  And yes, it is overly simplistic—just like most of the writing about the current "younger" generations.

See, they didn’t learn logic.  Instead they learned video gaming because "learning resembles Nintendo more than logic" (EDUCAUSE review).  They didn’t learn protocol because "doing is more important than knowing (EDUCAUSE review).

"Push it!"  That’s what I was told on the bus this morning when the door wouldn’t open, despite the fact that the door doesn’t open until the green light above it has come on.  But in a "world" where the worst that can happen when you push the wrong thing at the wrong time is a restart, well, "Push it!" becomes the answer to most everything.  Really, why not?

Except for the simple fact that not everything in the real, non-virtual, world is meant to be pushed or at least not before its time, I can’t think of any good reasons NOT to push.