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Wednesday, August 22, 2001
http://www.latimes.com/technology/columnists/techcol/la-000067990aug22.story?coll=la%2Dbusiness%2Dtechnology%5Fcolumn In school and the workplace, the young are guiding their older colleagues through the technical landscape. By MARTIN MILLER, TIMES STAFF WRITER Jeff Conor is 16 and completely e-literate. The 10th-grader from Olympia, Wash., knows a listserv from a link, a browser from a bot. It's just that some of his teachers don't. So, on some days for about an hour, Jeff the student becomes Jeff the instructor to various teachers around his school who aren't quite as comfortable with computers. The world of commerce--from mega-corporation chief executives to small businesses across the nation--has also had to pair younger, more tech-savvy workers with senior employees and management to keep pace with the explosive growth of computers....
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