14/08/2026
The internet of today would be almost unrecognizable to someone experiencing it for the first time decades ago.
For one generation, the internet meant connecting a computer to a telephone line. For another, it meant discovering search engines, email, websites, and early social platforms.
Today, many young people are growing up in an environment where smartphones, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, digital classrooms, streaming, and instant global communication are simply part of everyday life.
And the transformation isn't over.
Every generation brings its own expectations and experiences to the digital world. Those experiences influence what people demand from technology, what problems they identify, what solutions they create, and what they believe the internet should become.
This makes education particularly important.
Young people shouldn't only learn how to use digital technologies. They should have opportunities to understand the systems behind them, think critically about how the internet is evolving, and explore how technology, policy, infrastructure, and society interact.
Because the next generation won't simply be users of the internet.
They could become its researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, educators, policymakers, advocates, innovators, and leaders.
At LARUS Foundation, we believe that preparing future generations means giving them the knowledge and confidence to understand the digital world they are inheriting, and the opportunity to help shape what comes next.
Learn more: larus.foundation