Inescapably Connected: Life in the Wireless Age It is an industry truism that children most readily learn the necessary new styles and habits. They know to power-cycle gadgets that crash, and they instantly acquire the most esoteric special typing skills. "They're mutants!" says Michel Mayer at I.B.M. "They're cyborgs! I don't know how they do it!" He doesn't seem all that unhappy about it.