The Jet Ski Generation

The Internet hasn't rewired our brains. You just think so.

Metropolis, director: Fritz Lang, 1927

Twitter reminded me a couple of weeks before Christmas that I created my account and made my first Tweet 14 years earlier.

December 2008.

Twitter went live in 2006.

Yes.

I am an early adopter.

But even two years later - that is, around the time I joined - it had only hit 300,000 tweets a day total. By 2010, it wa…