Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world.

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Most adults are more akin to digital immigrants.

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Moreover, billions of analogues will eventually become digital immigrants, whether for fear of social isolation in rich countries or, in developing countries such as India and China, because they will be able to afford to.

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This, to digital immigrants, may sound like a recipe for anarchic chaos, until they visit, for instance, wikipedia.org, an online encyclopaedia that is growing dramatically richer by the day through exactly this spontaneous (and surprisingly orderly) collaboration among strangers.

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