A Generation of Dreamers and Doers

From New York Times Reporter John Schwartz, on a rise of entrepreneurship among college students across the country:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/education/edlife/innovationmain-t.html?_r=1&ref=edlife

"Today’s students have grown up hearing more about Bill Gates than F.D.R., and they live in a world where startling innovations are commonplace. The current crop of 18-year-olds, after all, were 8 when Google was ­founded by two students at Stanford; Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004 while he was at Harvard and they were entering high school. Having “grown up digital” (to borrow the title of Don Tapscott’s recent book on the Net Generation), they are impatient to get on with life.

“They’re great collaborators, with friends, online, at work,” Mr. Tapscott wrote. “They thrive on speed. They love to innovate.”